Skyfall the service. Javier Bardem was cast as the film's principal villain, Raoul Silva, a cyberterrorist who is seeking revenge against those he holds responsible for betraying him. Bardem described Silva as "more than a villain", while Craig stated that Bond has a "very important relationship" to Silva. In casting the role, director Sam Mendes admitted that he lobbied hard for Bardem to accept the part. Mendes saw the potential for the character to be recognised as one of the most memorable characters in the series and wanted to create "something [the audience] may consider to have been absent from the
London in film station, and the 2004 film "Creep". The eerie 1973 horror "Death Line" stars Donald Pleasence as a Scotland Yard detective who traces a series of murders to cannibals living in the network's tunnels. Excavations on the Underground unearthed an ancient alien spacecraft in "Quatermass and the Pit" (1967), and dormant dragons in "Reign of Fire" (2002). The 2002 James Bond film "Die Another Day" features a secret MI6 facility in a fictional disused Underground Station called Vauxhall Cross. The 2012 Bond film "Skyfall" sets a long chase scene in the London Underground near a makeshift underground MI6 base near the