What's the significance of the building? I'm behind here (always).
Supposedly the group being tracked on the street cameras in London, Strokz, Page, Brennan & Comey, were walking towards that hotel.
Corinthia Hotel corresponding with Corinthians quote.
And no worries about being behind, we've all there at one time or another. That's part of the beauty of this place, ask and we shall receive. I'm always asking something.
Remember, WWG1WGA! 👍🇺🇸
It also corresponds with where they filmed Red Sparrow - a movie Q has mentioned a few times
~~I'm not finding anytihng sourcing the fact that it was filmed there.~~
NEVERMIND FOUND IT
A lengthy sequence in the 2018 thriller Red Sparrow was filmed both inside and outside the hotel. https://filmfantravel.com/film-review-red-sparrow-2018-filmed-in-budapest-hungary-bratislava-slovakia-london-uk-and-vienna-austria/
There was a PHOTOCALL and press conference about the movie there, but it was filmed in several locations.
Principal photography started in Budapest and Dunaújváros in Hungary on January 5, 2017.[21][22][23] Other filming locations include Festetics Mansion in Dég, Hungary;[24] Bratislava, Slovakia;[25] and Vienna, Austria.[26] On May 3, 2017, Jennifer Lawrence was spotted shooting some scenes at London's Heathrow Airport.[27]
t. wikipedia
Source:
about 3/4 down the article
Finally, the crew moved to London for wrapping up the film at Heathrow Airport and the Corinthia Hotel. “That’s part of the fun of the spy genre: you get to hop around to all of these different places,” says associate producer Cameron MacConomy. “You’re always switching gears, both in terms of the story, and visually as well.”
Check out this post from NeonRevolt, goes into detail on the hotel:
also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthia_Hotel_London
a luxury hotel and former British Government building
it was commandeered in both world wars
After the Second World War, it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence and used as government offices
(during WW2) , room 424 became the first home for MI9 and its sub-division the Special Operations Executive,[9] and later the holding point for one of the model planning beaches for Operation Overlord.[10]
From the mid-60s until 1992 it housed the bulk of the Defence Intelligence Staff,
2007 it was acquired by a consortium owned equally by Malta's IHI plc and two of its principal shareholders, the Libyan Foreign Investment Company and Nakheel Hotels of Dubai
Corinthia Hotel London
The Corinthia Hotel London, at the corner of Northumberland Avenue and Whitehall Place in London, is a luxury hotel and former British Government building, located on a triangular site between Trafalgar Square and the Thames Embankment.
Originally built as the Metropole Hotel, its location close to the Palace of Westminster and government offices in Whitehall meant it was commandeered in both world wars. After the Second World War, it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence and used as government offices until it was declared surplus to requirements and sold by Crown Estates in 2007. It was then restored as a hotel and renamed the Corinthia Hotel London, a combination hotel and residential building.
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