# Details of new Bond film announced **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/details-of-new-bond-film-announced/434814 "2008-01-24T14:30:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/details-of-new-bond-film-announced/434814/21 "2008-01-24T20:36:36Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Could we discuss something _important,_ like whether this film will feature that dinky little .25 Beretta or the long barreled Colt? :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] The Beretta? Nice and light…in a lady’s handbag. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/details-of-new-bond-film-announced/434814/22 "2008-01-24T21:27:24Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] The Beretta? Nice and light…in a lady’s handbag. [/QUOTE] I think it’s most too [light.](http://theonlineblues.com/robert-johnson-32-20-blues-lyrics.html) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/details-of-new-bond-film-announced/434814/23 "2008-01-24T21:31:20Z")
[QUOTE=Algher] I still like my .380, even with your meany comments! [/QUOTE] Do **NOT** take it into a bar, ok? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/details-of-new-bond-film-announced/434814/24 "2008-01-24T21:35:43Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Are we still talking about when he comes out of the water? [/QUOTE] That depends on how cold the water is… ---
**Author:** ![Jean\_Gray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jean\_Gray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jean_Gray)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/details-of-new-bond-film-announced/434814/25 "2008-01-24T23:58:21Z")
[QUOTE=BMax] > [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Are we still talking about when he comes out of the water? That depends on how cold the water is… [/QUOTE] Is the beach in the Caribbean? 🆒😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Real\_Thing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@The\_Real\_Thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Real_Thing)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/details-of-new-bond-film-announced/434814/26 "2008-01-25T00:34:59Z")
I read something about Quantum of Solace somewhere today, possibly linked off of Oh No They Didn’t. Apparently, Bond goes on a mission to figure out what happened to Vesper and finds out she was blackmailed. He teams up with another agent (I think) with her own agenda. The other agent is played by Olga Kurylenko, but there’s a different Bond girl with whom Bond hooks up, played by Gemma Arterton. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/details-of-new-bond-film-announced/434814/27 "2008-01-25T00:43:44Z")
[QUOTE=Algher] Damn, my ignorance has been cleared. I always thought he had the .380, not the .32. I still like my .380, even with your meany comments! [/QUOTE] The old PPK (the films switched to a P99 in _The World is Not Enough_) and the Beretta .25 were Bond’s concealed-carry weapons, of the sort Fleming himself would have used in WW2, back when a Browning 9mm HP was sincerely meant to be “High Power”. Bond would upgrade as needed Europe had a much lower standard of “stopping power” than the USA, the 7.65mm was as common there as a handgun load as the .38 Special was in the USA. From the pictures at the press conference, it seems that the choice of “Quantum **o** f S **o** lace” was also influenced by the ability to do the title in such a way as to reuse the O-O-7 design from Casin **O** R **O** yale [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/details-of-new-bond-film-announced/434814.md?page=1)