With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, you can see why the studios and producers behind the James Bond films want to keep plot and cast details under wraps for as long as possible.

Some cast members are finding levels of secrecy befitting a super spy somewhat scary, however.

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New Bond girl spills the beans on Quantum of Solace.
by Chris Tilly, IGN UK

UK, January 29, 2008 - Gemma Arterton has only been acting for six months, but the 22-year-old has already won plum parts in Brit flicks St. Trinian’s, 3 and Out and Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming RocknRolla. If that wasn’t enough, she’s also playing a Secret Service agent in new Bond film Quantum of Solace, and IGN interviewed her on set last week to discuss landing one of cinema’s most sought after roles.

You’ve been a Bond girl for a little while now — is it still exciting or is the novelty starting to wear off a bit?

Gemma Arterton: No, every day there’s something exciting that happens, like I just got asked to present at the BAFTAs, which I can’t do because I’m filming this, but little things like that. I’ve only just left drama school and have been working professionally for six months, so all of this is out of this world. It doesn’t feel real still. That’s why I wasn’t too nervous on the first day because I just felt like it was a game. The size of it hasn’t hit me yet, but I’m sure that it will.

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Warning: This article contains potential spoilers.

New Bond girl Gemma Arterton has hinted the superspy will marry in new movie Quantum Of Solace.

The British actress, 22, confirmed she and Daniel Craig had been filming scenes for the next installment of the franchise in a honeymoon suite.

After realising she had revealed a crucial plot, the St Trinian’s star told a U.S. reporter, “I think I’ve said too much.”

It will be the second marriage for Bond - the spy married in the 1969 movie On Her Majesty’s Service.

Source: Yahoo! Movies

They come from very different backgrounds. One is the daughter of a Gravesend welder while the other was brought up by a single mum in a bleak, impoverished Ukrainian backwater.

But Gemma Arterton and Olga Kurylenko have both been plucked from obscurity for roles in the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

Just nine months ago, Gemma, who is 22 this week, was working in a Covent Garden beauty shop.

“We had a Bond themed night a year ago and I had dress as a Bond girl and sell make-up,” says the actress who plays MI6 operative Agent Fields. “And now here I am, a real Bond girl!

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New Bond girl Gemma Arterton has revealed her boyfriend is “wary” about her landing the coveted part in Quantum Of Solace.

Gemma, who has been cast alongside Ukranian Olga Kurylenko in the latest Bond installation, said: “He’s wary of it. Who wouldn’t be? But I love him very much and I am not interested in anyone else.

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E! News aired a short clip from the Quantum of Solace press conference and photocall yesterday and introcuded the new Bond girls Gemma Arterton and Olga Kurylenko.

Gemma Arterton, 21, is only six months out of drama school and is now playing Agent Fields, an MI6 field agent at the Bolivian consulate. She is possibly the youngest spy to ever appear in a Bond movie. “She doesn’t do anything too advanced, it’s not like she’s killing people,” she reveals. In response to the main question, she says: “Yes I do kiss Daniel Craig. The kiss has happened and yes [pause] it was quite incredible. It was all a bit of a daze. I felt such a giggly girl because he’s such a man.”

Arterton, who plays head girl Kelly in the current St Trinian’s movie, has been warned by another Bond girl to open her post with a letter-opener now that she has kissed Craig. “You get hate mail, apparently,” she confided.

Source: The Guardian (click for full story)

Wow! We’re getting spoiled with great Bond related goodies. Check out the first still of Gemma Arterton as Agent Fields in Quantum of Solace, courtesy of Empire Online. It just surfaced online. Here’s what they had to say about Gemma’s look:

Gemma Arterton’s Agent Fields has the rather pure, buttoned up look that Rosamund Pike had in Die Another Day, and we all know what happened to her. So maybe we can expect prim facade (or at least the wig-looking ‘do) to fall away and reveal something darker. We already know she has love scenes with Bond.

Read on for the full official Quantum of Solace synopsis!

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- Quantum of Solace: Production Stills

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Empire has just learned some important plot details for Bond 22, during the Sony launch of the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

We have learned that the plot centres on an attempted coup in a South American country. Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who works behind the cover of an organisation called Green Planet, wants to control one of the world’s most important natural resources and to aid in this he makes a deal with an exiled South American general to get him back into power.

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As we reported ealier, a press conference and photocall for the 22nd James Bond film, now officially titled Quantum of Solace was held earlier today. Gemma, as well as Daniel Craig and fellow bond girl Olga Kurylenko were in attendance. I have added the first available photos with many more to come! Gemma looks great here, I really adore her look and she’s totally rockin’ the new hair!

Sony Pictures has announced that the official title for the 22nd James Bond installment is Quantum of Solace. The title is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960.

The new film sees 007 (Daniel Craig) out for revenge on a mission that takes him to Austria, Italy and South America. Bond girl Camille, played by Ukrainian-born Olga Kurylenko, leads the secret agent to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), member of a mysterious organization and a ruthless businessman, seeking to control huge natural resources.

The plot follows on directly from Casino Royale, as Bond aims to uncover the truth about Vesper, the beauty who betrayed him, and discovers that she had been blackmailed.

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Sony Pictures have confirmed that there will be a press conference for Bond 22 tomorrow. The press conference will take place in Pinewood Studios near London. Additionally, there will be a photo call.

Most of the main cast will be attending: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright and Dame Judi Dench. Director Marc Forster and producders Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson will also be there.

It is not known if the title is revealed tomorrow.

Source: CommanderBond.net

Parts of Bond 22 will be filmed in Bregenz, western Austria, on the edge of Lake Constance, Swiss production company Unicorn Media said.

(Possible spoiler ahead!) The company is recruiting 1,500 extras for opera scenes set on a floating theater (spoiler ends). Unicorn Media has passed applications on to director Marc Forster’s London team, which will in turn choose the extras.

The filming, which began January 3 in London, will move to Bregenz between April 29 and May 10.

The new 007 film stars Daniel Craig, Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini and Anatole Taubmann. It is scheduled for a November 7, 2008 release.

Source: ComingSoon.net

Sony announced today that principal photography has begun on the 22nd Bond flick, tentatively — and creatively — titled Bond 22, at London’s venerable Pinewood Studios. Daniel Craig returns as the blonde Bond, accompanied by Casino Royale co-stars Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright and Giancarlo Giannini. Newcomers include Gemma Arterton, Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), who plays Bond’s Gallic nemesis, and Olga Kurylenko (Hitman), who plays the lead bond girl Camille.

Variety reports that Ukranian actress Olga Kurylenko has been cast as the female lead girl in the newest James Bond film, the still untitled Bond 22. According to the official press release, Kurylenko will be playing the role of Camille, who “challenges Bond and helps him come to terms with the emotional consequences of Vesper’s betrayal.”

Kurylenko, born in 1979 in Berdyansk, former USSR, recently co-starred in Hitman and with Elijah Wood in a segment for Paris, je t’aime. She began her film career in France in 2005. She received the certificate of excellence award at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival for her performance in L’Annulaire.

To learn more about the new Bond girl addition to the Bond 22 casting, head over to Olga Kurylenko Online.

British newcomer Gemma Arterton has been cast as the Bond girl for the latest installment of the James Bond franchise now filming in London for Columbia Pictures and MGM.

The film’s production companies late last week said Arterton will play Fields in the Marc Forster-directed movie, which has the working title of Bond 22 and stars Daniel Craig as Agent 007.

Talk of Arterton’s casting has been swirling since mid-December but had been unconfirmed by the producers. On Friday, Eon Prods. in London and Santa Monica-based Danjaq Prods., as well as Arterton’s agent, ICM in London, confirmed the casting. Details of her character were not available, but a Danjaq rep said “it’s a nice-sized role.”

The 21-year-old Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts grad joins a cast that includes Craig, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright and Jesper Christensen.

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The internet is currently abuzz with rumours that St Trinian’s actress Gemma Arterton will be the next Bond girl, as reported in several tabloids today. Though we’d encourage you not to believe anything everything you read in the red tops, Empire has learned from a source who’s in a position to be absolutely sure that this casting is 100% true. What’s not absolutely certain yet is whether Arterton will be the main Bond girl, like Eva Green in Casino Royale, or one of the peripheral lovelies like Caterina Murino and that other one. But what we’re hearing suggests that she’ll be in a fairly major role.

The storyline for Bond 22 ? or 007 as it’s rumoured to be called after Daniel Craig accidentally slipped up slightly on a talk show ? is, of course, still under wraps, so there’s no knowing what her role might be. Arterton’s certainly got the looks for the part, though we can’t judge her acting skills yet as we’ve yet to see St Trinian’s, her first movie. But we do know she’s lovely.

Source: Empire Online