Where to watch Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
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A media mogul engineers international incidents to push rival superpowers toward war and profit from the resulting headlines. A British secret agent investigates the scheme, joining forces with a highly capable Chinese operative while facing dangerous enemies, elaborate gadgets, and a relentless series of chases and confrontations.
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Ricky Jay, Götz Otto, Joe Don Baker, Vincent Schiavelli, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn, Samantha Bond, Colin Salmon
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Trivia & production notes
- Donald E. Westlake wrote two story treatments for the film in 1995 that both featured a villain planning to destroy Hong Kong with explosives before China's takeover, and he later adapted these concepts into a novel called Forever and a Death that wasn't published until 2017.
- The film's title came about by accident when a fax to MGM about a potential title "Tomorrow Never Lies" was misread by the recipient, resulting in "Tomorrow Never Dies," which MGM liked so much they kept it.
- Bruce Feirstein's script was inspired by his experience covering journalism and watching 24-hour news coverage from Sky News and CNN during the Gulf War.
- A Pentagon-approved deletion removed a line where a CIA agent tells Bond that attempting a Vietnam operation could lead to war, potentially allowing the U.S. to win this time.
- Sela Ward auditioned for the Bond girl role but producers rejected her, saying they wanted someone "ten years younger," ultimately choosing 32-year-old Teri Hatcher.
- Pierce Brosnan screen-tested with Italian actress Monica Bellucci for the Bond girl role, but the studio insisted the part had to go to an American actress, leading Brosnan to say "The fools said no."
- Anthony Hopkins turned down the role of villain Elliot Carver to instead appear in The Mask of Zorro.
- The film was forced to relocate from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok when the Vietnamese government rescinded the production's filming visa two months into planning, reportedly after the government viewed GoldenEye's opening credits showing women destroying communist symbols.
- The remote-controlled BMW 750i that appears driverless in the car chase was created by modifying the vehicle to put its steering wheel on the back seat, and the entire sequence took three weeks to film.
- Because George Lucas was using Leavesden Studios for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the production had to construct new sound stages at another derelict industrial site rather than use the facility they had built for GoldenEye.
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