Behind the Scenes on Skyfall with Honda and Robbie Maddison

In a year of big budget sequels and prequels, it’s without doubt that one of the year’s best action films was Skyfall.  This is the twenty-third James Bond feature and celebrated Agent 007’s fiftieth anniversary of thrilling movie audiences worldwide in grand style.  One of the earmarks of a Bond film is a spectacular opening sequence, which in recent years has become a stunt extravaganza.  Here, Skyfall certainly didn’t disappoint.  One of the jaw-dropping sequences involved a motorcycle chase across rooftops in Istanbul, Turkey.  This video that shows how much planning and preparation went into that chase.  In addition to an insider’s look at Freestyle Motocross star Robbie ‘Maddo’ Maddison as Daniel Craig’s daredevil stunt-double and the Honda CRF250R motorcycles used in the film.