Producer
Albert "Cubby"Broccoli
Harry Saltzman
Barbara Broccoli
Michael G,Wilson

Writers to all Bond books
Ian Fleming  
Amis Kingsley
Raymond Benson 
John Gardner
Charlie Higson
Sebastian Faulks
Bondbooks

James Bond actors
Barry Nelson
Sean Connery
George Lazenby
Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan
Daniel Craig

James Bond Composers
Monty Norman 1
John Barry 11
George Martin 1
Marvin Hamlisch 1
Bill Conti 1
Michael Kamen 1
Eric Serra 1
David Arnold  5
James Bond Music

Release Data
UK: 12th December 1997 (12)
USA: 19th December 1997 (PG-13)
World Premiere: 9th December 1997 (Odeon Leicester Square, London, UK)
UK TV Premiere: 13th October 1999, ITV
US TV Premiere: 14th January 2001, CBS

Running Time: 123 minutes
Classification: 12 (UK), PG-13 (US)
Budget: $110m
Worldwide Box Office: $335.3m
US Box Office: $125.3m
US Admissions: 26.7 million
UK Box Office: £19.9m

Production
Producers: Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Screenplay: Bruce Feirstein
Composer: David Arnold

Locations
Terrorist Arms Bazaar, The Kyber Pass; South China Sea; Oxford and London, UK; Hamburg, Germany; Okinawa and Saigon, Vietnam; Halong Bay, South China Sea

Pre-Credits Sequence
007 sets up a cruise missile strike on a terrorist arms bazaar near the Russian border. Upon spotting nuclear torpedoes loaded on jet, Bond charges through the market to commandeer the plane and fly it to safety before the missile hits, preventing radioactive plutonium being spread across the area.

Title
The title is not used directly in the film, but "Tomorrow" is the name of Elliot Carver's newspaper. The film was originally titled "Tomorrow Never Lies" before a typing error in a fax inadvertently suggested the change.

Cut Scenes & Alternate Versions
One cut scene involved Bond returning his rental car. At the end of the car park chase saw Bond remarking "the keys are in the car" to the Avis lady.

Reportedly toned down for a 12 cinema certificate in the UK, a further 6 seconds of cuts were required to retain this rating for the video version. All use of shurikens (throwing stars) and a bad guy having his face stamped on were removed, and most of the fight sound effects were reduced.

The UK terrestrial television broadcast by ITV in October 2001 included the "shuriken" and "face stamping" shots that were removed from the UK VHS and DVD releases.

Best Line
Roebuck: "With all due respect, M, sometimes I don't think you have the balls for this job."
M: "Perhaps. But the advantage is that I don't have to think with them all the time."

Best Mistake
Helicopters can not physically perform the movement used to trap Bond and Wai Lin in dead end of the alleyway.

Distinguishing Feature
Bond 'meets his match' in Wai Lin, the first time Bond performs a jump on a motorcycle and the fabulous car chase in the hotel car park.

Statistics
Conquests: 3,
Martinis: 1, 
Kills: 25, 
"Bond, James Bond": 1

BMW Tomorrow Never Dies James Bond BMW R1200 C Motorcycle Cruiser.

BOND 18

TOMORROW NEVER DIES 1997

Screenplay  by Bruce Feirstei (for educational purposes only)

FADE IN ON:

EXT. DESOLATE MOUNTAIN RANGE - HIGH ANGLE - DAWN

Super: THE KHYBER PASS, AFGHANISTAN

We're looking down at what used to be called "The End of the Known
World." A landscape that is both beautiful, and forbidding.

In the center of this vista, there is a deep ravine.

Pushing in on the ravine, there appears to be a giant icicle hanging
over a cliff:

AN ICE FALL. A 600 foot waterfall whose face is frozen solid.

Pushing in still closer, there is a tiny black dot inching its way up
the ice. A human figure. This is:

JAMES BOND, BRITISH SECRET SERVICE AGENT, 007.

Bond is sweating and straining, four hundred feet in the air. He has
an ice-pick tethered to each hand, ice-cleats on his boots. A black
backpack. As he climbs, spider-like, pulling himself up, he goes to
JAM A CLEAT into the ice, but -

CRACK! A 50 foot stiletto of ice breaks off, CRASHING onto the rocks
below. Regaining his foothold, Bond looks down: Certain death. He
looks up: So very, very, far to go. Bond shakes his head:

BOND
There has to be an easier way to earn
a living.

Still, Bond climbs. Huffing, sweating, he goes up, and up, until -

ANOTHER ANGLE -

He's 25 feet from the top. He drives a first ice pick in. Gets a
toehold. But when he slams the second pick in -

THE ICE WALL SHATTERS, FALLING AWAY IN FRONT OF HIM. IN THE SHOCK -

BOND LOSES HIS GRIP ON THE FIRST ICE PICK -

And 007 is now dangling, 575 feet in the air, staring at a torrent of
water - hanging only by the leather thread around his wrist, attached
to the first ice-pick, still embedded in the wall.

Bond pauses. Thinks. And coolly begins to swing himself back and
forth, in widening arcs, like a clock's pendulum.

At the high point of his swing, Bond reaches back to smash his other
pick into the ice - BUT MISSES. He looks up at:

THE FIRST ICE PICK, STILL EMBEDDED IN THE WALL -

Beginning to work its way out. The tether, fraying.

RETURN ON BOND -

Cautiously, 007 begins to swing a second time. Once. Twice. And on
the third arc, he swings the ice-pick viciously - but MISSES AGAIN.

ANGLE ON THE FIRST ICE PICK, STILL EMBEDDED IN THE WALL -

Now jutting downward, barely holding. The tether is almost totally
frayed through.

RETURN ON BOND -

One last chance. Bond swings. Once. Twice. He reaches back, hurls
himself at the wall, lunging - AND SMASHES THE SECOND PICK INTO THE
ICE... Just as the tether finally snaps on the first one. Still,
he's all but home: He reaches over, grabs the first pick (barely
holding in the ice,) jabs it in, and continues upward.

EXT. THE TOP OF THE WATER FALL -

Exhausted, Bond reaches up, over the edge. He drives a pick down -
through the ice, into the hard, flat, ground beneath the waterbed.

As he pulls himself up, (his full weight on the first ice-pick,) he
smashes a second pick through the ice, into the waterbed, and -

THE ENTIRE ICE FALL GIVES WAY -

Breaking off with a groan, tumbling onto the rocks below.

IN THE WATERBED -

A torrent of water crashes over 007. Fighting the oncoming deluge,
he crawls - on his belly - through the water - 25 feet inland.

NEW ANGLE - (TOP OF THE WATER FALL, INLAND)

Bond stands, walks out of the riverbed. He looks back at the cliff:

BOND'S POV - THE WATER FALL -

On either side of the water, there are two small RADAR DISHES, angled
down, scanning every inch of the area, save for

JONATHAN PRYCE stars as the megalomaniacal media baron Elliot Carver, who hatches a deviant plot to start World War III to garner ratings for his new global satellite news network.

Hand-cuffed together on the back Of a stolen motorcycle, Wai Lin (MICHELLE YEOH) and Bond (PIERCE BROSNAN) race through Vietnam's streets and over roof-tops.

PIERCE BROSNAN stars as James Bond and 
TERI HATCHER portrays Paris Carver.

At a rental office in Hamburg, Q (DESMOND LLEWELYN, Left) introduces Bond (PIERCE BROSNAN) to his new gadget-enhanced BMW

Bond (PIERCE BROSNAN) and Wai Lin (MICHELLE YEOH) prepare to secretly infiltrate Carver's Stealth Ship.

Bond (PIERCE BROSNAN) and Wai Lin (MICHELLE YEOH) escape Carver's Vietnam headquarters by sliding down a giant banner high above street level.

Gotz Otto portrays Carver's ruthless henchman, Stamper.

Left - TERI HATCHER portrays Paris Carver, Carver's disillusioned wife who shares a secret past with James Bond. Right - DESMOND LLEWELYN appears in his 16th foray as M16's ingenious inventor Q