20 Things You Didn't Know About A View To A Kill (1985)

15. An “Underground” Warehouse

A View To A Kill
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Bond Villains love underground bunkers!

Max Zorin’s bunker is concealed beneath his outwardly serene French chateau, but it does not house a shark pool, nor a drug processing facility, or even the controls for a deadly space-based weapon; he uses it to stockpile microchips.

James Bond and Sir Godfrey Tibbett (Patrick Macnee) discover the warehouse during their brief but memorable stay at the chateau. However, the real-life location is around 340 miles northeast of Zorin's chateau in Chantilly, France. It is located above ground and in another country altogether.

Rather than building an expensive and cavernous soundstage set to represent the warehouse, the filmmakers travelled to the distinctive-looking Renault Distribution Centre in Swindon, which became The Spectrum Centre after Renault vacated it in 2001. Designed by British architect, Norman Foster, it opened in 1982 and became a Grade II listed building in 2013.

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