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Bond in Mexico City during the Day of the Dead festival foils a bombing at the Metropolitan Cathedral and takes an octopus ring from the attacker, Marco Sciarra. In London, M suspends him for the unauthorized mission, while M is locked in a power struggle with Max Denbigh, called C, who wants Britain inside the global surveillance program Nine Eyes and the 00 section shut down. Bond, acting on instructions left by the previous M, goes rogue, with Eve Moneypenny and Q helping him quietly. In Rome he attends Sciarra's funeral and rescues the widow, Lucia, from assassins; she tells him Sciarra worked for a network run by Franz Oberhauser, presumed dead for twenty years. Using the ring, Bond slips into a meeting of the organization, where Oberhauser names him and the assassin Hinx chases him through the city.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Spectre (2015)
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- An explosion filmed in Morocco holds a Guinness World Record for the largest film stunt explosion in cinematic history, involving 8,140 litres of kerosene and 24 charges each with a kilogramme of high explosives.
- Radiohead were commissioned to write the title song and submitted "Man of War", an unreleased song written in the 1990s, which was rejected as ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Original Song; a second song, "Spectre", was rejected as too melancholy, and Lana Del Rey later said her song "24" had also been rejected.
- According to chief stunt co-ordinator Gary Powell, filming the chase had the "risk of skidding into the Vatican", and led to "a record for smashing up cars in Spectre - seven Aston Martins in all," with the film's car expenses estimated at 24 million pounds.
- Production was temporarily halted first by an injury to Craig, who suffered a meniscus tear while shooting a fight scene with Bautista, and later by an accident involving a filming vehicle that saw three crew members injured, at least one of them seriously.
- The film's use of the SPECTRE organization ended long-standing litigation: producer Kevin McClory sued James Bond creator Ian Fleming in 1961 over elements of the novel Thunderball and was awarded the novel's film rights two years later; McClory died in 2006, and MGM settled with his estate in November 2013.
- Ralph Fiennes revealed in a 2021 podcast interview that at one stage Sam Mendes suggested a plot twist revealing M to be the villain, which Fiennes vetoed.
- Sam Smith wrote the title theme "Writing's on the Wall" in a single session with regular collaborator Jimmy Napes in under half an hour before recording a demo, and the filmmakers were satisfied enough to use that demo in the final release.
