The music video for "Talk" was helmed by director/photographer Anton Corbijn. Filming took place on November 5 and 6 at Ealing Studios, London , just before the band began an European leg on the Twisted Logic Tour. The black-and-white clip invokes a B-movie science fiction theme, with imagery ranging from a flying saucer to 3D glasses.
The main plot line of the music video features Coldplay as astronauts landing on an alien planet, where they re-activate a dormant robot. The robot in the video bears a strong physical resemblance to the original Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy television series. A previous Coldplay track, "Don't Panic" also referenced the series with its title. At one point of the clip, subtitles present the lyrics of the spelt backwards just like in the video for "No Surprises" by Radiohead.
Anton Corbijn: "This was an elaborate video for me at least -it involved a lot of greenscreen and consequently a lot of post-production. I really wanted to do this video and i also wanted to practice a bit, to prepare a bit for the movie. After the release of my dvd, i got such a buzz out of the reactions that i was interested to work on videos again so i went on from the Coldplay video to shooting a video for Depeche Mode in december in California. The song is "Suffer Well" and it will be released around now. I feel that both those 2 videos are entertaining and good family fun ! I never thought of my work like that before actually." (from corbijn.co.uk; 9 Feb 2006)