Daniel Craig’s time as Agent 007 is over. It was a time of records, not only in terms of the success of the five “James Bond” films produced since 2006, but also because three world records were actually broken. Craig’s debut “Casino Royale” set a world record: Bond’s Aston Martin made a total of seven complete rollovers in the film, the record for car rollovers was broken.
In 2015 the film “Specter” set the next world record: special effects expert Chris Corbould used 8,418 liters of kerosene and 33 kilograms of explosives to create the largest explosion ever filmed. A spectacular result. Another record should be set for “No Time to Die” – and again it’s about explosions.
No time to die: explosive “James Bond” final breaks world record
The official YouTube channel of the “James Bond 007” film series has published a short video about this new world record in which Chris Corbould explains how the world record came about. An employee of the company Event Horizon, which was responsible for the explosives on the set, came to him and informed him that there was still a record open that could be broken. It would be about the filmed explosion, for which the largest amount of explosives was used. The record was 65 kilograms of explosives.
For the grand finale of “No Time to Die”, in which the base of the villain Lyutsifer Safin (played by Oscar winner Rami Malek) is destroyed by a rocket strike, Corbould filmed an explosion for which 140 kilograms of explosives were used – more than twice as much Amount of the previous record! An absolute sensation, especially because the trend in recent years has tended to no longer use real explosives, but to create explosions digitally on the computer.
The video can be seen here: