20 Things You Didn't Know About SPECTRE (2015)
14. "Well, It's All A Matter Of Perspective."
SPECTRE’s headquarters were depicted by Gara Medouar, an erosion crater near Erfoud, Morocco, which had previously appeared as Hamunaptra, the Egyptian City of the Dead in The Mummy (1999), starring Daniel Craig’s wife, Rachel Weisz.
The filmmakers built the compound outside the rock formation to avoid damaging it, whilst Blofeld’s post-modern house was a villa named Dar Bianca designed by Algerian architect, Imaad Rahmouni in Marrakesh, overlooking the Atlas Mountains.
The scene where Bond’s exploding Omega Seamaster 300 wristwatch starts a chain of destruction that levels the facility was filmed in the desert outside Gara Medouar and later enhanced with CGI.
Special effects supervisor, Chris Corbould and his team used 33 kilograms of powder explosives and 8,418 litres of kerosene - equivalent to 68 metric tonnes of TNT - to create the blast. The explosion lasted for 7.5 seconds onscreen, was the biggest that Corbould had worked on in his career, and earned the film a Guinness World Record for the largest movie stunt explosion ever.