8. Filming Quantum Of Solace During The Writer's Strike
One of the more misguided creative choices in the Bond series was to start shooting on Quantum of Solace despite the 2007-2008 Writer's Guild of America strike only allowing a "bare bones" script (as Daniel Craig called it) to be handed in to director Marc Forster. As a result, while WGA rules wouldn't allow any unionised screenwriter to work on the project, Forster and Craig essentially rewrote the script themselves on a daily basis, and once the strike ended during filming, Forster finally enlisted a spec writer to help punch up scenes he wasn't happy with. Still, the roughshod production is evident in the final result, which runs as easily the shortest of all the Bond films (merely 106 minutes), and is clearly balanced more in favour of action than a coherent plot, because there basically wasn't one. It's easy to understand MGM wanting to strike while the iron was hot following Casino Royale's success, but their greed really got the better of them here.
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