20 Things You Didn’t Know About Quantum Of Solace (2008)
7. “I Knew We Shouldn’t Have Slept Together.”
The 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike prevented Paul Haggis from working on the screenplay during filming, whilst Neal Purvis and Robert Wade were also unavailable. After reading a speculative script by Joshua Zetumer, Marc Forster convinced the producers to hire him once the strike ended.
Forster encouraged improvisation from the cast during rehearsals, so Mathieu Amalric and Anatole Taubman decided that Dominic Greene’s henchman, Elvis was actually his cousin, inducted into the sinister Quantum organisation after living on the streets.
Amalric and Olga Kurylenko also developed Greene and Camille's relationship with Zetumer to make them lovers. Greene’s hatred of Camille arose because Amalric believed that Greene could not satisfy her in bed.
Daniel Craig and Forster also worked closely with Zetumer because, having only been entitled to work on the script as actor and director, they needed someone to put their ideas on paper, which made Quantum of Solace more of a sequel to Casino Royale than was originally intended.
Following his experience on the 22nd Bond film, Craig vowed never again to work on a film that did not have a finished script in place.