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Still raw over Vesper Lynd's betrayal and death, James Bond delivers the captured Mr. White to M, who questions him about the organization Quantum. White says its operatives are everywhere; a fight in Siena lets him slip away. A lead in London points Bond to Haiti, where a hitman has been sent to kill Camille Montes on the orders of her lover, Dominic Greene. Greene, an environmental businessman, is helping Medrano, an exiled general, retake power in Bolivia in return for a stretch of barren desert. Bond takes Camille out of harm's way and follows Greene to an opera in Bregenz, where Quantum's members gather. With M doubting his judgment and cutting off his funds, Bond turns to an old ally, René Mathis.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Quantum of Solace (2008)
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- While filming at Pinewood, Craig suffered a gash when kicked in the face, which required eight stitches, and a fingertip was sliced off. He laughed these off, noting they did not delay filming, and joked his finger would enable him to have a criminal career.
- During filming in Sierra Gorda, Chile, the local mayor, Carlos López, staged a protest because he was angry at the filmmakers' portrayal of the Antofagasta Region as part of Bolivia. He was arrested, detained briefly, and put on trial two days later.
- Craig said the production had "the bare bones of a script" when the writers' strike hit and no writer could be employed to finish it. The rules allowed only the actor and director to work on scenes together, so he and Forster rewrote them: "a writer I am not".
- Amalric modeled his performance on "the smile of Tony Blair [and] the craziness of Sarkozy", calling Sarkozy "the worst villain we [the French] have ever had ... he walks around thinking he's in a Bond film."
- Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse recorded a demo track for the film, but Ronson explained that Winehouse's well-publicised legal issues in the preceding weeks had left her "not ready to record any music" at that time.
- The film broke the UK opening-weekend record, taking £15.5 million in its first weekend and surpassing the previous record of £14.9 million held by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Two stuntmen were seriously injured, one of them the Greek stuntman Aris Comninos, who had to be put in intensive care, and filming was halted so that Italian police could investigate. Rumours of a "curse" spread among tabloid media, something which deeply offended Craig.
- Out of the 400 women who auditioned for the part, including Lisa Ray, Forster chose the one who seemed the least nervous; a then-unknown Gal Gadot was also asked to audition for the role, which kick-started her acting career.
