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Tomorrow Never Dies
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
1997 · Directed by Roger Spottiswoode · 119 min · Adventure · Action · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
Yesterday is a memory. Today is history. Tomorrow is in the hands of one man.
Plot
MI6 sends James Bond into the field to scout a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border. Despite M's insistence on letting 007 finish his mission, Royal Navy Rear Admiral Roebuck orders the frigate HMS Chester to fire a Harpoon missile at the bazaar. Bond discovers two nuclear torpedoes mounted on an L-39 Albatros trainer jet; with the missile out of range to be aborted, Bond is forced to pilot the L-39 away seconds before the bazaar is destroyed, dogfighting with another L-39 before being able to return to base.
Media baron Elliot Carver starts his plans to use an encoder obtained at the bazaar by his associate, cyberterrorist Henry Gupta, to provoke war between China and the UK. Meaconing the GPS signal using the encoder, Gupta sends the frigate HMS Devonshire off course into Chinese-occupied waters in the South China Sea, where Carver's stealth ship, commanded by Carver's chief enforcer Stamper, ambushes and sinks it with a "sea drill" torpedo. Carver's henchmen steal one of Devonshire's missiles and shoot down a Chinese MiG fighter jet investigating the scene. Stamper kills the Devonshire's survivors with weaponry loaded with Chinese ammunition. The British Minister of Defence orders Roebuck to deploy the fleet to investigate the sinking of the frigate, and demands retaliation, leaving M only 48 hours to investigate its sinking and avert a war.
M sends Bond to investigate Carver and his company, CMGN, after Carver released news articles about the crisis hours before MI6 had become aware of it. Bond travels to Hamburg to seduce Carver's wife, Paris (an ex-girlfriend of Bond's), to get information that would help him enter CMGN headquarters. He defeats Stamper's men and cuts Carver off the air during the inaugural broadcast of his satellite network. Carver discovers the truth about Paris and Bond and orders both of them killed. Bond and Paris reconcile in Bond's hotel room, and she provides him with information to infiltrate Carver's newspaper facility. Bond steals the GPS encoder from Gupta's office at the facility. Meanwhile, Paris is killed by Carver's assassin and Stamper's mentor, Dr. Kaufman. After Bond returns to find Paris' body, Kaufman holds him at gunpoint. Bond is able to kill Kaufman and escape his henchmen through a multistory car park in his Q-branch vehicle, a BMW 750iL with remote control via his Ericsson cell phone.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Bruce Feirstein
- Cinematography: Robert Elswit
- Edited by: Michel Arcand, Dominique Fortin
- Music: David Arnold
- Production design: Allan Cameron
- Produced by: Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Cast
- Pierce Brosnan as James Bond
- Jonathan Pryce as Elliot Carver
- Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin
- Teri Hatcher as Paris Carver
- Ricky Jay as Henry Gupta
- Götz Otto as Stamper
- Joe Don Baker as Wade
- Vincent Schiavelli as Dr. Kaufman
- Judi Dench as M
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: German, English, Danish, Mandarin, Cantonese
- Studios: EON Productions
- Budget: $110,000,000
- Box office: $333,011,068
- Themes: media tycoon, navy, london, england, china, england, missile, spy, secret intelligence service, intelligence, manipulation of the media
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