The UK's
Anorak has posted a story about a local boatman that helped the filming of the finale for
Skyfall by West Scotland village of Crinan near Christmas time. Now if you remember from past reports this location was mentioned before because this is also home to Duntrune Castle, the oldest inhabited castle in all of Scotland. The owner of the castle leaked that the big finale would be filmed there, but producers changed there mind about using the actually castle itself and could reconstruct the guts of it in a hangar if they like.
So, this boatman informed
Anorak that there will be boat chases and explosions. And his job during the shoot was navigate the boat that Daniel Craig was in, without being seen.
instructed to go like hell and stay hidden from the cameras but, for ‘God’s sake’ above all else, keep the highly paid, allegedly macho and/or beautiful, people starring in the film alive and well.
One of the Crinan area old salts was told to get into a boat which had small holes drilled to allow him to look directly forward and then steer the craft around Loch Crinan at high speed. Meanwhile the various superstars such as Daniel Craig (Bond) looked frantically busy at helms which were not connected to anything.
Skyfall, Craig's third outing as James Bond will be released on October 26, 2012. Daniel Craig will be joined by Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, as well as a Judi Dench as M.