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"Writing's on the Wall" was co-written by Sam Smith and Jimmy Napes. Smith said that the song came together in one whirlwind session: they and Napes wrote it in under half an hour and quickly recorded a demo. When they listened back to that recording, they were so pleased with Smith's vocal performance that they ended up using it on the final release—albeit with some added muscle in the arrangement. On 8 September 2015, Sam Smith announced that they were singing the song for the James Bond film Spectre. They described performing the theme as "one of the highlights of my career".
The English band Radiohead were commissioned to write the title song, and submitted "Man of War", an unreleased song written in the 1990s.
The song was rejected as it had not been written for the film and therefore was ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Radiohead recorded another song for the film, "Spectre", but this was also rejected as too melancholy.
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Spectre was filmed from December 2014 to July 2015 in Austria, the United Kingdom, Italy, Morocco and Mexico. The action scenes prioritised practical effects and stunts, while employing computer-generated imagery made by five different companies. Spectre was estimated to have cost around $245 million—with some sources listing it as high as $300 million—making it the most expensive Bond film and one of the most expensive films ever made.
In March 2013 Mendes said he would not return to direct the next film in the series, then known as Bond 24; he later recanted and announced that he would return, as he found the script and the plans for the long-term future of the franchise appealing. Nicolas Winding Refn would later reveal that he turned down an offer to direct the movie.
The film's usage of the Spectre organisation and its characters marked the end of long-standing litigation between Eon Productions and producer Kevin McClory, who sued James Bond creator Ian Fleming in 1961 claiming ownership over elements of the novel Thunderball, and in an out of court settlement two years later, was awarded the novel's film rights, including Spectre and its characters. McClory died in 2006, and in November 2013 MGM and the McClory estate formally settled the issue with Danjaq, LLC—sister company of Eon Productions—with MGM acquiring the full copyright film rights to the concept of Spectre and all of the characters associated with it
Despite being an original story, Spectre draws on Ian Fleming's source material, most notably in the character of Franz Oberhauser, played by Christoph Waltz, and his father Hannes. Hannes Oberhauser is a background character in the short story "Octopussy" from the Octopussy and The Living Daylights collection, and is named in the film as having been a temporary legal guardian of a young Bond in 1983.
Daniel Craig said that it was getting harder and harder to get fit for his shirtless scenes as James Bond at the age of 47, saying, "Am I getting my kit off in this movie? Of course I'm getting my kit off. I seem to be bare-chested throughout this film again. Yes, I've been working out for six months. I work myself to death to get fit. No secret method involved, just sheer hard graft. It's getting harder I will admit, but such is life. I'll keep going as long as I'm physically able."
This is the third James Bond movie to show Bond's home after Dr. No (1962) and Live and Let Die (1973). Producer Barbara Broccoli said of Bond's apartment in this movie: "At the beginning of pre-production I said to (production designer) Dennis (Gassner) that Bond's apartment will be one of the most difficult sets to get right, and after we shot it, he said, 'You were right about that', because everyone has an idea in their minds about the kind of place where Bond would live." Broccoli added: "When you actually sit down and figure out what that should be, everyone has different expectations. We knew it would be tricky, but Dennis did a great job, and Daniel (Craig) was also very involved in that set design, because it indicates a lot about the character of Bond himself, and what he calls home." Craig personally selected many of the items found in Bond's home in this movie.
Monica Bellucci previously auditioned for a Bond Girl role prior to being cast in this movie. In 1997, in an interview with Playboy Magazine, former James Bond Pierce Brosnan said that Bellucci had screen tested for one of the two leading Bond Girl roles, as Paris Carver, in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), the part in the end being cast with Teri Hatcher.
This is the first James Bond movie since Die Another Day (2002) to feature the iconic gun barrel sequence at the start of the movie. While the gun barrel sequence was used as part of the title sequence in Casino Royale (2006), the sequence was only shown at the end of Skyfall (2012) and Quantum of Solace (2008).
Reportedly, Daniel Craig's salary on this movie was £25.4 million ($39 million U.S.), allegedly making Craig the highest-paid actor to portray James Bond.
The massive explosion seen towards the end of this movie has been awarded a Guinness World Record as the largest movie stunt explosion of all time. The award was presented to the movie's special effects and miniature effects supervisor, Chris Corbould. The explosion lasted for over 7.5 seconds, took thirty-three kilograms (seventy-three pounds) of powder explosives, and 8,418 liters (2,224 gallons) of kerosene to explode, which is an equivalent of sixty-eight metric tons (seventy-five tons) of TNT.
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