Bond Aid: assistant director latest to be injured on Spectre set

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A second-unit assistant director has suffered multiple fractures after being injured on the Austrian set of the new James Bond movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Terry Madden, a 007 series regular who has worked on every Daniel Craig Bond movie since 2006’s Casino Royale, was hurt when a camera truck veered off a road and crashed into a barn during a shoot in the Alpine ski resort of Sölden. The accident is the second to hit production of Spectre, the 24th Bond movie, following Craig’s knee injury during a fight scene at Pinewood Studios in London last week. The latter incident reportedly caused a brief suspension of production, but the British actor was expected to be back on set by the weekend just gone.

The new Bond movie is currently shooting on location across Europe, with sets in Sölden, Pinewood and Rome, Italy. Sam Mendes’s second stint in the director’s chair, following the $1bn success of 2012’s Skyfall, stars Craig alongside French actor Léa Seydoux, Italy’s Monica Bellucci, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris and Andrew Scott, with Ralph Fiennes promoted as the new M. Double Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz plays the reputed villain, Franz Oberhauser.

The Sölden shoot featured last week in the first official shots and footage of Spectre to be released. Craig was shown firing a pistol in a short video, with Seydoux wrapped in regulation Bond girl furs and a number of snowmobiles also seen on set. Associate producer Gregg Wilson promised that Austria would be the site of “one of the major action sequences of the movie, a jewel in the crown so to speak”.

Spectre currently appears to be something of a tough shoot. In January, campaigners claimed that the movie’s Roman locations were in a dirty and dilapidated state, and last week producers were reportedly banned from shooting at a historic cemetery by an ancient Christian confraternity.

Craig’s fourth outing as the British spy opens in the UK on 23 October and worldwide two weeks later.