USA Today has published an extensive piece about their visit last week to the Chile set of the new James Bond flick Quantum of Solace, along with a couple of new stills (which we’ve made available in our movie gallery).

Setting up the film’s climax in Chile’s Atacama Desert fuses the plot with Bond’s internal life, director Marc Forster says in the article: “I chose the desert because it’s isolated, you feel lonely, and that’s what Bond is struggling with himself.” Bond actor Daniel Craig elaborates: “He has his heart broken. The love of his life is killed, and he finds out she’s not who she said she was. … He’s out for revenge. But he’s also out to find — and this is what the title is about — a ‘quantum of solace.’ Something has been taken away from him, and he’s out to get that back.”

The report also repeatedly mentions that the Olga Kurylenko played half-Russian, half-Bolivian spy Camille stands apart from other Bond girls as the only one who does not hook-up with Bond. Producer Michael G. Wilson explains: “We felt Bond could not immediately fall into another relationship. And we needed someone who had her own agenda and probably could not form a relationship either because of her situation.” In fact, apart from a one-night fling with fellow MI6 agent Fields (Gemma Arterton), the film is said to feature no romance at all.

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