“It gives me a huge buzz to be working with Aston Martin producing these 25 cars with gadgets,” says Corbould, who has worked on every Bond film other than Octopussy since The Spy Who Loved Me, and who’s had involvement in the upcoming 25th movie.
“The owners are going to have a lot of fun with their family and friends with the gadgets, and most of all they’re going to have a piece of film history in their household.”
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Of course, all that fun will be happening behind closed doors, off the public road, as these Goldfinger DB5 Continuation models are not road legal. But health and safety has still been paramount in developing the extras.
Corbould also admits the project had been a challenge for a special effects team more used to producing one-off moments of cinematic awe, rather than systems that customers are relying on to perform time and again.
“If we were doing an oil slick in a film, then we could fill the boot with equipment and put out about 50 litres in a couple of seconds,” he says. “Here it has to fit into a much smaller space, and it has to be able to work again and again.”
Clockwise from top left: Corbould is a Bond expert; ‘machine gun’ firing; recreating a film star; a peek inside
