We can’t blow money on things that go to waste or else you end up with f*** all on screen. And if the place gets shut down after the planning, you don’t get your money back. And planning for them means spending money. Right now we should be preparing the Russia film, which were supposed to shoot last February. The f***ing pubs are closing again,” said Wilman. “In March this year we thought OK, we’ll go into lockdown and in the autumn we’ll be good to go. Plans for a Grand Tour special in Russia were postponed in February and it’s unlikely that the crew will be able to shoot the film any time soon. They were our ingredients and off we go." “And the last bit of the puzzle is ‘Why are we bothering?’, and it didn’t take much research in that part of the world to get stuck into pirates. And the cars for one island are completely wrong for the other island and there is your adventure. “We could start on one island and go to another island.
And from there you start to piece the bits together.
It’s night and day the difference between these roads. “Someone else looked around and said Reunion has this incredible road on it. “We knew we had to come back with cars with a bang after the Mekong and we heard about this road which is believed to be one of the world’s toughest roads. “It’s some jigsaw pieces that came together,” explains Wilman. In a quest which allows Richard Hammond to live out all his childhood fantasies, A Massive Hunt centres on the presenters looking for buried pirate treasure.īut how did the plan to turn the trip to a tropical island into a Indiana Jones-style adventure come to fruition? “And by the time we returned to cars for Madagascar we were all refreshed and ready to go for it with cars again.” A pirate treasure hunt We knew people would say, ‘what are you f***ing playing at’, but we knew we still had the right ingredients and it was the right thing to do. That’s one of the reasons we took a break to do the boats (2019’s The Grand Tour presents Seamen). “We’ve been to a lot of places, we’ve done a lot of old cars getting hammered by the environment but winning through – so you’ve got to try hard to think beyond that. But these longer specials need a journey and narrative, which is added pressure. Just jump around like children with too much sugar. That’s the biggest thing that beats you around the head. “If you look back at the Top Gear ones, they started at an hour. “We’ve always tried to make a special feel special,” he said. The switch from a regular series of The Grand Tour for Amazon to doing a couple of travel specials every year has helped the creative team and refreshed the format, but it does pose challenges for Wilman.
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