Trivias

• Pre-production work for this film began before Casino Royale (2006) started filming.
• Daniel Craig, a fan of Marc Forster, recommended him to be the film's director. According to Foster, he was surprised to be approached for the job as he was not a big OO7 fan as a child, and was unlikely to have taken the job before he saw Casino Royale (2006), in which he felt Bond had been humanised (he explained: "The most interesting place for a James Bond movie to go, in a way, is inward - deeper into Bond himself.").
• Daniel Craig felt Casino Royale (2006) was physically "a walk in the park" compared to this film; his training was extremely intense, involving more boxing, running, speedboating and stunt driving. He was injured about three times in the making of this film.
• Dan Bradley was hired as the film's second unit director on the basis of his work on the Jason Bourne trilogy, so the film would continue the contemporary gritty action style begun in Casino Royale (2006).
• The film's title was selected only a few days before its announcement on 24 January 2008. For a long time, it had been considered unsuitable for an OO7 film; Daniel Craig admitted he was unsure about it, but it seemed to fit in the context of the film: "Bond is looking for his Quantum of Solace, that's what he wants. Ian Fleming says that if you don't have a Quantum of Solace in your relationship, you might as well give up. Bond doesn't have that because his girlfriend has been killed, therefore he's looking for revenge to make himself happy with the world again." QUANTUM is also the name of the organization in the film; a kind of new-age SMERSH.
• The use of the title "Quantum of Solace" for a Bond movie was first touted around the time of Licence to Kill (1989).
• As a promotional book-tie in for the movie, all the original Ian Fleming James Bond short stories will be housed in the one volume for the first time. The compendium will be called "Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories". It will include all nine short stories from the For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Octopussy (1983) and The Living Daylights (1987) anthologies. It is released on 26 August 2008.
• The movie will be in major release in 2009 which is also 50th Anniversary Year of the first publication in Modern Woman magazine of the film title's source short story "Quantum of Solace". Ian Fleming's short story was first published in 1959. The movie will also be in release in 2008 which is the 100th Anniversary Year of the birth of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
• Producer Michael G. Wilson has stated that the movie begins one hour after the end of Casino Royale (2006), making this the first OO7 film that is a direct sequel.
• Producer Michael G. Wilson has stated that the "traditional" gun barrel sequence (which includes the gun barrel walk) will probably return for this movie. It was omitted in the previous film Casino Royale (2006), the only film in the series to do so.