“Skyfall director Sam Mendes honours those who served in World War I by setting out to craft the most immersive experience ever attempted on film. With extensive research completed at the Imperial War Museum London and inspired in part by conversations with his grandfather Alfred H Mendes, who served during the war and fought in the Battle of the Somme, Mendes plants the audience fully within the narrative with a boots on the ground thriller.”

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