Trivia: M's house in this film is the former home of James Bond composer, John Barry.
Trivia: All of the scenes filmed for the London Underground, Temple and Westminster stations, were filmed at Charing Cross underground station.
Trivia: The theme tune to Skyfall was released at 00:07am as a spoof of James Bond's code number.
Trivia: Skyfall marks the 50th anniversary of Bond, and there was actually one person who worked on every single official Bond film since the start and to that point. Derek Watkins was a trumpet player and had worked on the score of every official movie since Dr. No, with Skyfall being his last as he died 4 months after the movie was released.
Trivia: When Bond confronts Patrice in the building, originally Bond was going to walk into the scene wearing cool leather gloves. But during the editing stage, a crew member pointed out that Bond's gun would only operate when his fingerprints were in contact with it, meaning the gloves wouldn't let him shoot during the scene. An extra $1 million was spent digitally removing the gloves from Daniel Craig's hands.
Trivia: The title song "Skyfall" was the first James Bond theme to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and was the first to earn an Oscar nomination since the song for 1981's "For Your Eyes Only".
Trivia: In Shanghai, Bond spots the painting Woman with Fan, by Amedeo Modigliani. This painting was stolen in real life in 2010. This is similar to the first Bond film, Dr. No, when he comes across the stolen Duke of Wellington painting that had also been stolen in real life just before Dr. No began filming. Woman with Fan also shows up for a brief moment in Spectre.
Trivia: Skyfall is Daniel Craig's only Bond film not to feature a scene set in Italy.
Trivia: Javier Bardem came close to being part of the Bond legacy a decade earlier. Following the release of Die Another Day, a spinoff based on Halle Berry Jinx was being developed and Bardem was in mind for Jinx's lover, but that film never came to fruition.
Answer: Because Bond is fighting to the death with a man who's trying to throw him off a train. He can't exactly step out of the way.
Brian Katcher