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In preproduction we had a meeting at BAFTA
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where we invited all the corporations
involved in shooting this sequence.
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They included
the police and fire department,
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the Thames Commission, Westminster,
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Tower Bridge and Jubilee Gardens
have their own commissions,
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the London Eye -
the BA London Eye had a commission.
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There were 13 commissions
gathered for breakfast
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and, again, to credit Tim Bevan
and Mark Huffam, our producers.
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Mark Nelmes, our other visual effects supervisor,
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is the ice cream man,
sporting an original Thunderbirds hat.
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Fortunately the only time
that hat is seen in the film.
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He had the... Bevan and Huffam
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had the good sense to involve all these
commissions in one room at once
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to pitch to them what we wanted to do
in this sequence you're watching.
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And the thinking being
that they would shame each other
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into agreeing to do it.
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And if anyone disagreed, the peer pressure
from the other committees
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would be such that
they'd have to give in and relent,
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and in fact they did.
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Originally in the script we had suggested that
maybe the Mole,
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which is coming out of Thunderbird 2,
as you can see,
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would hit one of the supports
of the London Eye
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and the London Eye would then
teeter over the Thames
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and one of the pods
that people take their rides in
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would be submerged and in jeopardy
for our heroes to then save.
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Unfortunately, the London Eye
is a terrorist target,
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given the unfortunate state of affairs
in the world today,
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and they, the London Eye,
would not approve a script
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that would put their property in jeopardy
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or, obviously, suggest any way to get to it.
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So this, what we euphemistically called
the Olympic Monorail,