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Release year: 1999

Storyline

James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot while protecting an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.

Top credits

Directors

Michael Apted

Writers

Cast

Pierce Brosnan — James Bond
Sophie Marceau — Elektra King
Robert Carlyle — Renard
Denise Richards — Dr. Christmas Jones

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Did you know

• When the real MI6 learned that this movie would shoot a scene around their Headquarters, they moved to prohibit it, citing a security risk. However, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, at the urging of Member of Parliament Janet Anderson, moved to overrule them and allow the shoot, stating, "After all Bond has done for Britain, it was the least we could do for Bond."

• Desmond Llewelyn (Q) died in an car accident soon after this movie was released. Llewellyn said just before his death that he was planning to appear in the next Bond movie. The video release was dedicated to Llewelyn, and featured a tribute montage of his appearances in seventeen Bond movies over thirty-six years. Not only was this his final Bond movie, it was the last James Bond movie of the second millennium.

• The adjusting of the tie underwater by James Bond in the opening boat chase was an idea conceived by Pierce Brosnan.