Die Another Day - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[duane]

Will Yun Lee plays a character named Colonel Moon. There is a James Bond novel by Kingsley Amis, written (under the pseudonym Robert Markham) shortly after Ian Fleming's death, titled "Colonel Sun". It was Amis' only Bond novel. The full name of Colonel Moon is Colonel Moon Tan-Sun, making the connection to Amis' novel even more explicit.

[chris]

Oliver Skeete: The West Indian born show-jumper as a Concierge at the Blades Fencing Club.

[kristina]

It has been suggested that Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was the inspiration for Gustav Graves.

[sylvia]

South Korean actor Cha In-pyo turned down the role of Colonel Moon.

[edgar]

The ice chase sequence, which lasts just over two minutes on-screen, took four weeks to film, with the cars doing no more than twenty miles per hour, being filmed with under cranked cameras, so that when the film was projected at normal speed, the cars would seem to be going at high speed. Close-ups and control filming was done on sets created in an airship hanger in England.

[elmer]

According to Rosamund Pike in a 2018 interview, she says that while auditioning for her role in this movie, the first thing she was asked to do was drop her dress and appear in her underwear, making her very uncomfortable.

[bernard]

The title is derived from a phrase from the poem "A Shropshire Lad" by A.E. Housman: "But since the man that runs away / lives to die another day". In this movie, James Bond says to Gustav Graves, "So you live to die another day", because at the start of the movie, it was believed that the villain, under his alternate persona, had been killed.

[tamara]

The last of six movies (as of 2015) to feature the main villain in the pre-title sequence. The others are Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Licence to Kill (1989), and GoldenEye (1995).

[cameron]

As this is the 40th anniversary film of the franchise. The 40th anniversary is a ruby milestone, that's why the title logo of the movie is red.

[jim]

Bond has suits and shirts made in Hong Kong by his "usual tailor". This is a reference to Diamonds Are Forever (1971), where Bond tells Tiffany he knows a good tailor in Hong Kong.

[harry]

The region one DVD release commentary reveals that the movie was inspired by the original Ian Fleming novel "Moonraker", as the previous adaptation of Moonraker (1979) left out many elements from the book. The only element of the novel to survive to the end, after a fashion, was the duel between James Bond and Gustav Graves in a club called "Blades". In the original novel, Bond and villain Drax have a different sort of duel in Blades, a game of cards. This is the first Bond movie since Licence to Kill (1989) to take inspiration from a Fleming novel. The character of Miranda Frost was originally named Gala Brand. This was the name of the Bond Girl in Fleming's novel "Moonraker". Other than the duel between Drax and Bond surviving into this movie from "Moonraker" are: the theme of the villain having plastic surgery to conceal his real identity (in the novel, a grenade exploded in Drax's face), and the villain posing as a patriot by creating a space device claiming to help the government, when it is actually a weapon.

[sandra]

The fictional abandoned station on the London underground, where Bond meets M, Vauxhall Cross, is a reference to the address of the real MI6 Headquarters in London, located at 85 Vauxhall Cross.

[nora]

One of the $216,000 Aston Martin Vanquish cars was written off by a stuntman when he lost control during the chase across a frozen lake in Iceland.