Em uma entrevista , Purvis e Wade, autores do filme, afirmam título "caiu do céu":
Neal Purvis: “Unfortunately Rob came up with the title. Not as a title, he came up with the name of the house.”
Robert Wade: “We were looking for a name for this house…”
Purvis: “Like Manderley in (Daphne du Maurier’s) Rebecca.”
Wade: “Exactly. It’s evocative, and you don’t really know what it means. And it was two o’clock in the morning, and the script had to go off, and I typed ‘Skyfall’. So it sort of fell out of the sky, actually. And I never thought that that would end up as the title of the movie. But it obviously struck a chord. But if we’d thought the name of the house would be the name of the film, and the name of the song…”
Purvis: “We’d have talked about it a little bit longer.”
Wade: “And maybe have done a three-syllable house name. Like Manderley – that’s pretty good, actually.”
Purvis: “Yeah. It’s the first two syllable Bond title, actually. Some people find that interesting (laughs).”
Ian Fleming, criador do personagem de James Bond, nunca nomeou o lar ancestral de Bond, mas em You Only Live Twice , ele escreveu que os pais de Bond morreram em um mountain climbing accident , o que é interessante, eles caíram do céu.
