Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace Movie Details:

Based on	James Bond by Ian Fleming
Countries	United Kingdom United States
Language	English, Spanish
Genre	Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release dates	October 29, 2008 (London) October 31, 2008 (United Kingdom) November 14, 2008 (United States)
Running time	1hr 46min
Age rating	PG-13
Starring	Daniel Craig Olga Kurylenko Mathieu Amalric Giancarlo Giannini Jeffrey Wright Judi Dench
Directed by	Marc Forster
Written by	Paul Haggis Neal Purvis Robert Wade
Produced by	Michael G. Wilson Barbara Broccoli
Cinematography by	Roberto Schaefer
Edited by	Matt Chesse Richard Pearson
Music by	David Arnold
Production Companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures Eon Productions
Distributor	Sony Pictures Releasing

Quantum of Solace Movie Cast & Characters:

• Daniel Craig as James Bond, agent 007
• Olga Kurylenko as Camille Montes, a Bolivian agent with her own vendetta regarding Greene and Medrano.
• Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene, the main villain.
• Giancarlo Giannini as René Mathis, Bond’s ally who was mistakenly believed to be a traitor in Casino Royale.
• Gemma Arterton as MI6 agent Strawberry Fields, who works at the British consulate in Bolivia.
• Anatole Taubman as Elvis, Greene’s second-in-command.
• Jesper Christensen as Mr. White, whom Bond captured after he stole the money won at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
• David Harbour as Gregg Beam, the CIA section chief for South America and a contact of Felix Leiter.
• Rory Kinnear as Bill Tanner, M’s chief of staff.
• Tim Pigott-Smith as the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
• Joaquín Cosío as General Medrano, the exiled general whom Greene is helping to get back into power, in return for support of his organisation.
• Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter, Bond’s ally at the CIA.
• Judi Dench as M. Forster
• Fernando Guillén Cuervo as Carlos, the Colonel of Bolivian Police, the chief of all police forces, and the contact of René Mathis in Bolivia.
• Paul Ritter as Guy Haines, special envoy to the Prime Minister and a member of Quantum.
• Neil Jackson as Edmund Slate, a henchman who fights Bond in Haiti.
• Simon Kassianides as Yusef Kabira, a member of Quantum who seduces female agents and manipulates them into giving away classified information.
• Stana Katic as Corrine Veneau, a Canadian agent and Yusef’s latest target.
• Glenn Foster as Craig Mitchell, M’s bodyguard and a double agent.
• Oona Chaplin as Perla de las Dunas’s receptionist, a woman saved by Camille Montes in one of the last sequences.
• Lucrezia Lante della Rovere as Gemma, Mathis’s girlfriend.
• Jesús Ochoa as Lieutenant Orso, a bodyguard of the exiled General Medrano

Storyline:

James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organization from eliminating a country’s most valuable resource. All the while, he still tries to seek revenge over the death of his love.

About Quantum of Solace Movie:

Quantum of Solace is an action-adventure spy thriller film, the sequel to the 2006 film Casino Royale and the twenty-second in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. Directed by Marc Forster, it was written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis. The film stars Daniel Craig as Bond, alongside Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright, and Judi Dench.

A second Bond film starring Daniel Craig was planned before production began on Casino Royale in October 2005. Initially, Roger Michell was announced to direct in July 2006, with a planned release for May 2008. However, Michell left the project in October 2006 due to delays with the screenplay. Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis completed the screenplay by June 2007, and Marc Forster was announced as Michell’s replacement.

Principal photography began on August 16, 2007, and lasted until May 2008, with filming locations including Mexico, Panama, Chile, Italy, Austria, and Wales, while interior sets were built and filmed at Pinewood Studios.

Daniel Craig was injured multiple times during the making of this film. His most significant injuries included a facial wound requiring four stitches, a shoulder injury that necessitated surgery and six surgical screws, and a hand injury where one of his fingertips was sliced off. Despite these setbacks, Craig joked about the injuries, noting they did not delay filming and even humorously mentioned that his finger wound might help him in a criminal career. Additionally, he underwent minor plastic surgery on his face.

Quantum of Solace premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 29, 2008, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on October 31, and in the United States on November 14. The film received generally mixed reviews; while Daniel Craig’s performance and the action sequences were praised, but was deemed inferior to its predecessor.

The film grossed $589 million worldwide, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2008 and the fourth-highest-grossing James Bond film, unadjusted for inflation.

Upon its opening in the UK, Quantum of Solace grossed £4.9 million ($8 million), breaking the record for the largest Friday opening (31 October 2008). The film then broke the UK opening weekend record, earning £15.5 million ($25 million) in its first weekend, surpassing the previous record of £14.9 million held by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The film grossed $168.4 million in Canada and the US, and $421.2 million in other territories, for a total of $589.6 million.

This is only the third time that M’s house has been shown in an official EON Productions James Bond movie. The first was in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), and the second was in Casino Royale (2006). The unofficial Casino Royale (1967) also showed M’s house.
The Third James Bond movie in which he seeks revenge. The second was Licence to Kill (1989), in which Bond went rogue and set out to get his revenge on drug lord Franz Sanchez, who tortured Felix Leiter and left him for dead and murdered Leiter’s bride Della. The first movie was Diamonds Are Forever in which Bond gets his revenge on Ernst Stavro Blofield for killing his wife Tracy.

The next film in the James Bond series, Skyfall, was released in 2012.

Quantum of Solace Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:

Budget	$200–230 million
Opening Day	$8 million
Domestic Collection	$168 million
International Collection	$421 million
Worldwide Collection	$589.6 million