James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 Shows Up for Filming in Italy, Gets Banged Up

“No Time to Die,” the 25th Bond movie and leading man Daniel Craig’s last one, is set for an April 2020 release. Under the original plans, it should have been out this fall, but Danny Boyle’s departure as director left a mark on the production, which translated into the inevitable delay.

The movie is now heavily underway, with several reports of action scenes being shot in various Italian cities. Daniel Craig hasn’t arrived in the country just yet, leaving all the experienced stunt work to the actual stuntmen. An intense action scene was also shot with his stunt double, Express notes.

However, that’s the least interesting part about this. The most interesting one is that Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5 was featured in the car chase scene and that it got pretty banged up in the process. Well, the damage was mostly scratches to the side of the car and those too were probably not real, but they still make for a painful sight.

The video below shows a scene of the car chase, which sees Craig’s stunt double at the wheel. In the passenger seat is a blonde woman believed to be the stunt double for Lea Seydoux. The footage doesn’t include the moment when the Aston Martin was scratched, only several takes of the same scene and one good look at this beautiful piece of machine.

“No Time to Die” will also be shooting on location in Puglia, Italy, Norway, Jamaica and the U.K., so expect more sightings of beautiful, expensive or powerful cars being either destroyed or used to their maximum potential to catch or get away from the bad guys.

Speaking of, Rami Malek stars as the yet unnamed villain in this installment. The rest of the cast includes Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw.