'Skyfall' was highest grossing film in franchise's history, know other fun facts

Daniel Craig is all set to pick up mantle of James Bond for one last time in Time to Die. Daniel Craig has done a total of five bond films to date and one of best of ses films is Skyfall. In Skyfall, Daniel Craig's James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when an nt from past comes to haunt M and attacks her. In this film, MI6 is under attack and 007 has to destroy threat matter what it costs him on a personal and a professional level. Here are some lesser-kwn and trivia facts from film Skyfall. 

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James Bond Skyfall trivia

• Daniel Craig performed stunt of leaping and sliding down escalator rail himself.
• Daniel Craig had got a personal invitation from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to promote James Bond at Opening Ceremony of 2012 Olympic Games in London in games. This video was titled  Arrival, and in this video is James Bond meets with Queen to escort her safely to stadium.  segment has been said to be Queen's first acting role.

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• passport used by Daniel Craig in Skyfall was t a prop but was an auntic document as issued by British Home Office, according to producer Michael G. Wilson. This passport is encoded with information that would instantly flag its improper use in any official transaction. actual details shown on Bond's passport in this movie are as follows: Name = John Adam Bryce; Date of Birth = 16th December 1968; Sex = Male; Place of Birth = London; Date of Issue = 22nd June 2012; and Expiry Date = 22nd August 2029.

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• For motorcycle chase in Turkey, Coca-Cola was sprayed on tarmac of streets in Istanbul to keep bikes from sliding. Coca-Cola is t official product placement in movie, though re was a Coke Zero marketing campaign that tied in with movie. Coke Zero would have been less effective, as sugar in Coca-Cola makes it sticky.

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• This was most successful James Bond movie at international box office in official film franchise's history.
• In fifty years of James Bond movies, this is only second film in which Bond suffers a gunshot wound. Apart from this, he was shot once in 1965 film Thunderball during Junkao chase.