Licence to Kill - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Licence to Kill or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Licence to Kill

[cameron]

While Carey Lowell wore a wig for the scenes set in the United States, a scene where Bouvier cuts her hair was added so Lowell's natural short hair could be used.

[oscar]

Wayne Newton got the role of Professor Joe Butcher after sending a letter to the producers expressing interest in a cameo, because he always wanted to be in a Bond film.

[tom]

In AMC's Bond Girls Are Forever (2002), Carey Lowell said that she shut her eyes and flinched every time she fired the gun, and had to be trained to fire with her eyes open, because a C.I.A. operative would not flinch. However, she still winces a bit whenever she fires the handgun.

[jessica]

The screenplay was not ready by the time casting had begun, with Carey Lowell being auditioned with lines from A View to a Kill (1985).

[violet]

In Italy, the title was "007 - Vendetta privata" ("007- Private revenge"), not following the translation, because the first Bond film (Dr. No (1962)) was titled "Agente 007 - Licenza di uccidere", meaning "Agent 007 - Licence to kill"). Sweden had the same problem: Dr. No (1962) had been titled "Agent 007 med rätt att döda" ("Agent 007 with a license to kill"), so "Tid för hämnd" ("Time for revenge") was used for this movie. Other countries used "Personal Revenge" (France); "The Cancelled Licence" (Japan); "With A Right To Kill" (Norway); "Permission to Kill" (Brazil). Finland, Croatia, Portugal, and Spain simply translated the actual title.

[aaron]

To portray Sanchez, Robert Davi researched on the Colombian drug cartels, and how to do a Colombian accent, and since he was method acting, he would stay in character off-set. After Davi read "Casino Royale" for preparation, he decided to turn Sanchez into a "mirror image" of James Bond, based on Ian Fleming's descriptions of Le Chiffre.

[ivan]

When Truman-Lodge (Anthony Starke) says that the set-up cost them thirty-two million dollars, that is an inside joke, a reference to the film's thirty-two million dollar budget.

[sandra]

The casting of Carey Lowell raised a few eyebrows, as her most recent film had been the oddball comedy Me and Him (1988) about a talking penis, and Bond's distributor, MGM/UA, was unsure about the wisdom of casting someone who had appeared in such a film.

[alyssa]

The mini sub seen in this film is an updated version of the one used in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), called the Shark Hunter II.

[terry]

Of all of the Bond films, this one has the largest role for Desmond Llewelyn as Q.

[toni]

Franz Sanchez has a pet iguana sitting on his right shoulder with diamonds around its collar, which mirrored Blofeld, who had a pet white Persian cat, also with diamonds around its collar.

[darrell]

Sea-Air Service, a sea plane company located in Louisiana, leased their sea plane for the scene where Bond takes over the plane full of cash. When the plane was returned to Louisiana, an employee from the sea plane company still found loose movie cash in the back when cleaning the cabin upon return from filming.

[harry]

Florida Governor Bob Martinez presented Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, and head of marketing, Charles Juroe, each with the Great Seal of the State of Florida during a month's filming in Key West. The Governor also won a walk-on part in the film as a customs officer at the Key West airport.

[jessica]

007 finds Felix Leiter barely alive with a piece of paper in his mouth which reads, "He disagreed with something that ate him". This was in the book "Live and Let Die". David Hedison also played Leiter in that film, making it is ironic that he would get out to play the memorable sequence from the book 16 years later.

[maureen]

According to Director Albert Pyun, Carey Lowell was cast after producers saw her performances in Dangerously Close (1986) and Down Twisted (1987).

[chris]

The bank scene in the movie was filmed in a post office, an old elaborate building of European styling. Real casinos were illegal in Mexico at the time of filming.

[russell]

The film was given the "15" rating in the United Kingdom, due to the sequence in which Felix Leiter is tortured.

[harry]

Many reviews and articles have compared the dark, violent tone to the action films of Producer Joel Silver. Several actors in the cast were frequently cast in Silver's films from the era, including Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush, Frank McRae, and Wayne Newton. Composer Michael Kamen also worked with Silver several times, spanning the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard franchises, Road House (1989), Hudson Hawk (1991), and The Last Boy Scout (1991).