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Q

Appears in
Skyfall (2012)
Played by
John Cleese

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Q is a character in the film Skyfall (2012), played by John Cleese.

12 Interesting Facts About Q

Interesting Facts (5)

  1. #001

    De Lancie said he took inspiration for Q from Lady Caroline Lamb's description of Lord Byron as "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know," drawing on it to feed the character's unpredictability and volatility.

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  2. #002

    Q's first major reveal was initially scripted as a Judge hovering in mid-air in a courtroom, but producers rejected the idea because they could not find a convincing way to film it.

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  3. #003

    Writing Q was hard for The Next Generation writers: essentially a god, he could not be written as a pure antagonist, yet he was not benevolent enough to avoid posing a threat.

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  4. #004

    The Next Generation writers solved the problem of writing Q by having him cast out of the Continuum and turned human, a move that broke new ground for the show.

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  5. #005

    Writers noticed similarities between Q and Trelane, a character from the original series; Roddenberry acknowledged the comparison but dismissed warnings that Q would look like a rehash.

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  1. #006

    Roger Deakins lit the skyscraper's glass interior set with just two large LED signs; the set was nicknamed "the jellyfish" after a recurring motif on the screens.

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  2. #007

    Among the leaked MI6 agent names shown on YouTube are members of the Skyfall crew: executive assistant Andrew Surry, art director Paul Inglis and effects technician Steve Benelisha.

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  3. #008

    Production designer Herman Zimmerman solved the floating Judge by placing John de Lancie on a camera crane and lighting his entrance with a spotlight.

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  4. #009

    John de Lancie was the first Star Trek actor to say the word "Trek" on-screen, doing so in the final episode "All Good Things..." as a subtle nod to fandom.

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  5. #010

    The pre-titles sequence was first planned for Ahmedabad, India, but moved to Istanbul after permission was refused to close rail lines for 8 hours a day for up to a week.

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  6. #011

    Special effects coordinator Chris Corbould and Garry Powell designed the digger stunt in which Bond "changes carriages"; the digger was fixed to a track and its movements were computer-programmed.

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  7. #012

    Daniel Craig improvised several lines, among them "health and safety, carry on", and spontaneously added the cuff check after leaping from the digger into the passenger carriage, which he jokingly called a "nut check".

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