Following its release in 1962, Broccoli and Saltzman created the holding company Danjaq to ensure future productions in the James Bond film series. No, directed by Terence Young and featuring Connery as Bond. They founded Eon Productions and, with financial backing by United Artists, produced Dr. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman purchased the filming rights to Fleming's novels.

Eon Productions, which now holds the adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels, made all but two films in the film series. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. For the various portrayals of the character, see Portrayal of James Bond in film. For the production background of the films, see Production of the James Bond films. Find out more about the ski resorts in East Tirol in this Chairlift Chat video here.This article is about the Bond films themselves. Another alternative is Salzburg or even Munich airport. The easiest way is to organise a hire car, as Obertilliach is a 3 hour drive from Innsbruck airport. T ravel: The closest airport is Innsbruck, served by easyJet, British Airways and Monarch Airlines. Where to stay: The East Tirol tourist board website has an online booking service, which searches everything from hotels and apartments to B&B’s and farmhouses. Located at 1450m, the village has a small skiing area, which is popular for beginner skiers and families as well as a centre for Nordic sports. Geographically not part of northern Tirol, the village of Obertilliach is located in the Lesachtal of East Tirol and remains largely undiscovered to the UK ski market. It’s not every day that a small community of 687 has a British secret agent coming to visit“. Mayor Matthias Scherer, „I knew in March 2014 that the production company had chosen Obertilliach, and for a tourist destination, like us, it was like winning the lottery. The so-called ‚Bond House‘, as named by the locals, had originally come from the neighbouring region, Styria, having been dismantled and re-assembled on the slopes of the Golzentipp ski area, specifically for the film.įour locations in and around Obertilliach will feature in the film, including scenes from the Grade II listed historic village centre of Obertilliach. Filmed over several days in January 2015, the scenes feature a traditional mountain hut, which becomes the focus of a spectacular explosion. The village resort of Obertilliach, located in East Tirol, also plays a leading action role in ‚SPECTRE‘. It’s easy to organise a hire car or pre-bookable resort transfers are available through Tour operators: A range of UK tour operators offer holiday packages to Sölden, including Crystal, Ski Total, Snow-Wise, and Ski Solutions.

Travel: The closest airport is Innsbruck, about an hour away and is served by easyJet, British Airways and Monarch Airlines. It’s fast, reliable, and allows you to search by a range of accommodation categories. Search them all using the tourist boards online booking service. Where to stay: Sölden offers a range of accommodation options from five-star hotels to affordable guest-houses and apartments. Find out what people have to say about Sölden in the new Chairlift Chat video here. Its consistently good snow conditions, along with over 140km of slopes, makes it one of the Europe’s top ski and snowboard destinations. Sölden is renowned for its excellent snow reliability with access to two high glaciers, impressive lift system and lively apres ski. The ICE Q restaurant, located at 3048m at the top of the Gaislachkogl, ticked all the boxes for that ‚unique, modern facility‘ that they were after. For Dennis Gassner, Production Designer, it had been a long journey through many countries, seeking a location to fit with what they were looking for and as he puts it, what could be more exciting than to be up there, on top of the world?‘. He promises it will be ‚spectacular‘ and added that ‚Austria seemed to have everything we needed to pull it off‘. Speaking on set in Sölden, Associate producer, Gregg Wilson, explained how he wanted to deliver ‚an amazing sequence‘, which will be one of the major action sequences in the movie. One of the highest mountain roads in the Alps, a mountain lift station that looks like curved ribs of steel and a design restaurant in the shape of a giant ice cube: the ski resort of Sölden in the Ötztal valley of Tirol, Austria, provided a complete mix of everything they needed for one of the main action scenes in the new James Bond film.

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