20 Things You Didn't Know About The World Is Not Enough (1999)
11. The Cardboard Pipeline
The World Is Not Enough is all about oil and its importance as a natural resource to the future of everyday life at the outset of the 21st Century.
M really drives the point home when she reveals that the King Industries oil pipeline is supplying the reserves that the West will rely upon in the next century. Therefore, when Renard places what may be a nuclear bomb in the pipeline, this could prove to be a catastrophe.
The full-scale pipeline was filmed in Cwm Dyli in Snowdonia in Wales but, as part of the pipe was meant to explode in the film, a miniature was also needed. This was constructed out of cardboard on Hankley Common near Elstead in Surrey by John Richardson and his special effects team.
The Common was also used for aerial shots of Elektra’s buzzsaw-wielding helicopters. It later returned for the hovercraft chase sequence in Die Another Day (2002) and to play host to the Bond family’s ancestral Scottish home in SkyFall (2012).