20 Things You Didn’t Know About Quantum Of Solace (2008)

20. “He’s Not Important. And Neither Was She.”

Producer, Michael G. Wilson started writing the script for Bond 22 with long-running Bond scribes, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade during the production of Casino Royale. It was decided at an early stage that the film would be a sequel of sorts to Daniel Craig’s debut as Double-0 Seven.

During his re-write of the screenplay, Paul Haggis (also returning from Casino Royale) suggested that Vesper Lynd could have had a child that James Bond found during his mission. According to director Marc Forster, the producers rejected the idea as “Bond was an orphan... Once he finds the kid, Bond can’t just leave the kid”.

The filmmakers therefore looked to Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel, Casino Royale for inspiration, in which it was assumed that Vesper’s Polish RAF pilot boyfriend had been eliminated by SMERSH after revealing information about her under torture. Vesper’s French-Algerian boyfriend, Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides) was reworked into a honeytrap working for Quantum who seduces female agents before pretending to be kidnapped, forcing them to do the organisation's bidding.

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Posted On: 30th Nov 2020

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