Tomorrow Never Dies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[michele]

In Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Don't Tug on Superman's Cape (1995), Teri Hatcher's character Lois Lane has a dream in which she is the Bond Girl Miss Goodbottom in the movie "The Spy Who Left Me", a reference to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

[jeffrey]

Rumors have circulated that Paris was intended to be an established character, possibly Natalya Simonova (GoldenEye (1995)) or Sylvia Trench (Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963)), but this was nixed due to fearing the bad reception that would come from killing her off.

[russell]

The BMW 750i that James Bond uses in this movie is the first Q-Branch car in the franchise that has four doors.

[willard]

First EON Productions James Bond movie to be presented by the "Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions" credit.

[beth]

Felix Leiter is mentioned in the novelization, where it is revealed that he now works for Pinkerton's. This happened to him in the novels.

[sophie]

The character of Henry Gupta (Ricky Jay) was originally written as a young man from India.

[ivan]

This movie cost $52 million more than GoldenEye (1995), the largest increase in budget between two James Bond movies, as of 2015.

[violet]

Elliott Carver's newspaper factory is the printing presses of London's Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard.

[dustin]

With his appearance in this movie, Michael Byrne joins the list of Indiana Jones actors and actresses who have appeared in James Bond movies. Sir Sean Connery, who played James Bond in six EON Productions movies (as well as the unofficial non-EON Productions movie Never Say Never Again (1983)), played Indiana's father Henry Jones, Sr. in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), John Rhys-Davies, who played General Pushkin in The Living Daylights (1987), played Sallah in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Julian Glover, who played Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only (1981), played Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Alison Doody, who played Jenny Flex in A View To a Kill (1985), played Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Byrne played Nazi Colonel Ernst Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and though his appearance was merely a cameo in this movie, his character was unnamed.

[ruby]

Martin Campbell declined the chance to direct again, not wanting to make two James Bond movies in a row. He opted to direct The Mask of Zorro (1998) instead.

[ethel]

The stealth ship is not a fictional invention. Lockheed secretly constructed and demonstrated one in the early 1980s, but the U.S. Navy finally decided they didn't want any. The prototype, called the Sea Shadow, was one hundred sixty feet long, and the movie's ship closely resembles it in shape.

[tamara]

During the chase scene inside the multi-storey car park, after Bond deploys the tyre stingers, the incidental music is an instrumental version of The Final Countdown by Europe. Yet, oddly, it is entirely out of context as there is nothing to countdown too b

[kristina]

Pierce Brosnan later said that production of this movie was "like pulling teeth".

[jessica]

The number plate of James Bond's BMW 750iL is "B-MT 2144". This ties in with his Aston Martin DB5's number plate "BMT 214A". The Aston Martin from Goldfinger (1964) had "BMT 216A", which could not be used for legal reasons.

[jessica]

Pierce Brosnan and Teri Hatcher feuded briefly during filming, due to her arriving late onto the set one day. The matter was quickly resolved, though, and Brosnan apologized after realizing she was pregnant, and was late for that reason.

[sylvia]

The location into which James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) drives his DB5 near the start of this movie also doubled for St. Petersburg in GoldenEye (1995), in the scene where Jack Wade's (Joe Don Baker's) car breaks down.

[richard]

H.A.L.O. stands for "High Altitude Low Opening" Jump. Stuntman B.J. Worth had to make eighty jumps out of a plane in order to film the H.A.L.O. jump sequence, eight jumps less than the eighty-eight required for Moonraker (1979).

[norma]

Pierce Brosnan was injured during one of the fight scenes, a stuntman's helmet hit him in the face. Brosnan required eight stitches down one side of his face, leaving the crew no choice but to film many of his scenes from one side only.

[caroline]

James Bond gets a new gun in this movie, the Walther P99, because Walther wanted to debut its new firearm in a Bond movie, which had been one of its most visible endorsers.