20 Things You Didn't Know About The World Is Not Enough (1999)
8. Bond Returns Home
Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire is often regarded as the spiritual home of the James Bond franchise, having been its primary base since Dr. No (1962). Indeed, both the filmmakers and the studio facility have shown great loyalty to each other over the years. Bond has only rarely and infrequently had to seek other studio space to the extent that he has not relied upon Pinewood at all.
However, at the time of filming, The World Is Not Enough had been the first Bond film not to be solely based at Pinewood since The Living Daylights, twelve years earlier.
Although sequences set aboard Elliot Carver’s stealth ship and the sunken wreck of HMS Devonshire had been filmed at Pinewood in Tomorrow Never Dies, that film had been based at a brand new studio facility created by Eon Productions in a warehouse facility in Frogmore, Hertfordshire.
Bond 19 made extensive use of Pinewood Studios and its many soundstages, notably the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage, which housed the nuclear bunker in Kazakhstan, whilst the Paddock Tank hosted Zukovsky's doomed caviar factory.