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Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies is a 1997 film, the eighteenth of the "Broccoli" James Bond films and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Also starring are Jonathan Pryce as villain Elliot Carver, Judi Dench as "M" and Teri Hatcher and Michelle Yeoh as Bond girls Paris Carver and Wai Lin. Tomorrow Never Dies was at its release the most successful in the series' history.

Table of contents

1 Summary 2 Music 3 Locations 4 Cast 5 External links

Summary

Evil media mogul Elliot Carver tries to start a war between the People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom to promote his world-wide television network. Bond is, as always, out to stop him, which he attempts through seducing Carver's wife, Paris Carver. Meanwhile, Bond is both rivaled and assisted by the Chinese secret agent Wai Lin. It has been suggested that the character of Elliot Carver is (very loosley) based on Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation exerts power across many continents. The script of Bruce Feirstein continues the Bond tradition of classic tongue-in-cheek lines.

Music

The film was scored by David Arnold, which was his first full Bond soundtrack. Arnold had been brought to the producer's attention following his successful Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project - which featured major artist peforming classic Bond title songs. The theme tune Tomorrow Never Dies was performed by Sheryl Crow and the end titles featured a "classic Bond" song, Surrender, sung by K.D. Lang.

Locations

• Pinewood Studios
• RAF Lakenheath, what was described as "U.S. Airbase in South China Sea" was actually filmed at the USAF base in Suffolk, hence the LN markings on the F-15s
• London, England
• Hamburg, Germany
• Mexico
• HMS Dryad, Royal Navy training establishment, for interior filming of Type 23 frigates.
• IBM building, Middlesex, England, used as set for the headquarters of Elliot Carver's media group.

Cast

• Desmond Llewelyn
• Samantha Bond
• Geoffrey Palmer
• Joe Don Baker

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Producers: Michael G. Wilson , Barbara Broccoli

Written by: Bruce Feirstein

Cinematography: Robert Elswit

Music: David Arnold

External links

• IMDB entry

James Bond movies

Dr. No | From Russia with Love | Goldfinger | Thunderball | You Only Live Twice | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Diamonds are Forever | Live and Let Die | The Man with the Golden Gun | The Spy Who Loved Me | Moonraker | For Your Eyes Only | Octopussy | A View to a Kill | The Living Daylights | Licence to Kill | GoldenEye | Tomorrow Never Dies | The World Is Not Enough | Die Another Day

Casino Royale | La Resurrection du Dragon | The Green Jade Mahjongg | Never Say Never Again | The Property of a Lady

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