Interview of Chris Corbould, special effects supervisor, conducted by Brando Benetton
April 8, 2020Do you want to know what “No Time to Die“‘s Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould told about the new Bond film? Sure you do!
Corbould’s interview was conducted by Brando Benetton and is part of his series “Sound Stage Access with Brando Benetton”. Thank you Brando for sharing this interview!
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Chris Corbould’s (born 5 March 1958 in Hampstead, London, England) 007 career started in 1977 in “The Spy Who Loved Me” as a Special effects assistant (uncredited) and after that he has been on several Bond productions: “Moonraker” (1979), “For Your Eyes Only” (1981), “A View to a Kill” (1985), “The Living Daylights” (1987). Then he took the task of a Special effects supervisor in second unit in “Licence to Kill” 1989) before he was assigned as Special effects supervisor in 1995´s “GoldenEye”

Since that he has continued to work in every 007 picture that has been released: “Tomorrow Never Dies” (1997), “The World Is Not Enough” (1999), “Die Another Day” (2002), “Casino Royale” (2006), “Quantum of Solace” (2008), “Skyfall” (2012), “SPECTRE” (2015) and coming “No Time to Die” (2020).
Corbould has also been e.g. Miniature effects supervisor, Action vehicle supervisor and Splinter second unit director in Bond films.
Corbould won An Academy Award of his work in “Inception” (2010) and has worked also in several other block buster films than Bond movies, like: “Superman II” (1980), “Superman III” (1983), “The Delta Force” (1986), “Highlander 2” (1991), “The Mummy” (1999), “Lara Croft – Tomb Raider” (2001), “The Dark Knight – trilogy” (2005, 2008, 2012), and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015).
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