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Movies & Series 21 April 2022, 13:26

author: Jan Tracz

Specter – the car chace in Rome. The most expensive scenes in cinema history

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  1. Movie budget: $245-300 million
  2. Scene budget: $32 million
  3. Where to watch: Rakuten, TV

And so the numbers go up, this time with the penultimate James Bond movie starring the one and only, as iconic as stern, Daniel Craig. The Bond series is known for its panache, high-octane action, and quite a few explosions. So, it's no surprise that 2015's Specter makes an appearance on this list. After the great triumph of Skyfall (2012), the director – Sam Mendes – indulged in a bit more craze. Not only did he involve two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, but he also decided to go beyond certain boundaries of Bond madness. Daniel Craig his Aston down the stairs below the Monument to Giacomo Matteotti? That's a sight to behold.

At first glance, it doesn't seem like this rather intimate scene of a chase through the Roman streets should cost so much. But let's think... when Bond escapes from the mercenaries of the mysterious Specter organization, he does so in the Aston Martin DB10 super car, developed specifically for the movie. Now imagine that of ten cars used in the scene, seven were destroyed. I bet that automotive enthusiasts regret this loss of these grand tourers to this day.

Jan Tracz

Jan Tracz

Graduated Film Studies (BA and MA) at King's College London, UK. Currently, he writes for Collider, WhyNow, The Upcoming, Ayo News, Interia Film, Przegląd, Film.org.pl, and Gamepressure.com. He has had publications in FIPRESCI, Eye For Film, British Thoughts Magazine, KINO, Magazyn PANI, WP Film, NOIZZ, Papaya Rocks, Tygodnik Solidarnosc, and Filmawka. He has also collaborated with Rock Radio and Movies Room. Conducted interviews with Alejandro González Ińárritu, Lasse Hallström, Michel Franco, Matthew Lewis, and David Thomson. His published works include an essay in the anthology "Nikt Nikomu Nie Tlumaczy: Swiat wedlug Kiepskich w kulturze" (Brak Przypisu Publishing, 2023). Laureate of the Leopold Unger Scholarship in 2023. Member of the Young FIPRESCI Jury during WFF 2023.

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