James Bond 007 - Tomorrow never dies

Movie
German title	James Bond 007 - Tomorrow never dies
Original title	Tomorrow Never Dies
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	1997
length	119 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Roger Spottiswoode
script	Bruce Feirstein
production	Barbara Broccoli , Michael G. Wilson
music	David Arnold , theme song: Sheryl Crow
camera	Robert Elswit
cut	Michel Arcand , Dominique Fortin
occupation
Pierce Brosnan : James Bond Jonathan Pryce : Elliot Carver Michelle Yeoh : Wai Lin Teri Hatcher : Paris Carver Ricky Jay : Henry Gupta Götz Otto : Stamper Joe Don Baker : Jack Wade Vincent Schiavelli : Doctor of Commerce Judi Dench : M Desmond Llewelyn : Q Samantha Bond : Miss Moneypenny Colin Salmon : Charles Robinson Geoffrey Palmer : Admiral Roebuck Colin Stinton : Dr. Dave Greenwalt
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor James Bond 007 - Goldeneye Successor  → James Bond 007 - The world is not enough

James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies (original title Tomorrow Never Dies ) is the 18th film in the James Bond series, shot in 1997, and the second film with Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007. The theme song Tomorrow Never Dies was sung by Sheryl Crow .

The film had a budget of $ 110 million and grossed nearly $ 460 million worldwide. It was released in German cinemas on December 18, 1997.

action

MI6, the CIA and the Russians monitor terrorists who illegally trade weapons at an airfield. There Bond is supposed to find a decryption machine. When this succeeds, the majority of the terrorists are to be eliminated in one fell swoop with a rocket. Shortly before it hits, Bond can remove an aircraft with nuclear weapons from the zone at the last second, thus preventing a disaster.

The British media mogul Elliot Carver wants to gain informational world domination - and this with the help of his media empire, which includes the British daily newspaper Tomorrow and its German counterpart Morgen . To this end, he wants to incite the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China in a war.

As a first step, his stealth ship , the HMS Devonshire , sinks a frigate of the British Navy and also shoots down a fighter jet belonging to the Chinese Air Force . He uses a GPS transmitter obtained by the cyber terrorist Gupta and his satellites to interfere with the navigation of the frigate and guide it into the vicinity of Chinese waters. The attacks lead to the political consequences desired by Carver, but neither the British Secret Service nor the Chinese intelligence service are fully convinced of the attacks and both countries send their agents out. James Bond and his Chinese counterpart Wai Lin meet for the first time at the opening of Carver's new media center in Hamburg . Bond also meets Paris Carver again, with whom he had an affair a few years earlier and who is now the wife of the media tsar. They get together again and he spends a night of love with her in his suite at the Hotel Atlantic . Then he goes back to Carver's media center and steals the GPS transmitter.

Carver learns of the renewed relationship and when Bond returns to his hotel, he finds the body of Paris there, along with a pre-produced video with the headline of their deaths together. Next to it sits a professional killer who is supposed to interrogate Bond in order to get to the GPS jammer hidden in Bond's car, which Carver's men cannot open. Bond is able to overpower and kill him using his cell phone, which works as a stun gun. After an extensive escape in his car, Bond manages to escape from the hotel's parking garage.

With the help of his CIA colleague Jack Wade, he gets to Vietnam, the place where the frigate sank. There he meets Wai Lin again. You can find the frigate during a dive and discover that a nuclear missile has been stolen. When they emerge, both fall into the hands of Carver's people, but even now they manage to escape through Ho Chi Minh City on a motorcycle - handcuffed to each other .

The Sea Shadow (IX-529) served as the model for Carver's stealth boat

With the help of the Chinese, they finally discover Carver's stealth ship in the South China Sea. From here, Carver not only wants to ignite the war with the rocket, but also organize a coup d'état in the Middle Kingdom with the help of the corrupt General Chang, which would have secured the leading role in the local media landscape.

While attempting to attach mines to the ship, Carver's henchman Stamper - allegedly - killed Bond and captured Wai Lin. Bond, who is still alive, manages to free Wai Lin and damage the outer wall of the ship with a remote-controlled hand grenade, which is now visible on the radar. When the Royal Navy then opened fire on the stealth ship, the entire crew jumped overboard. Bond, Wai Lin, Carver and Stamper are left behind. First there is a duel between Bond and Carver, with Carver being torn apart by the "Seadrill" - a kind of torpedo equipped with three saws at the front - and the command post. At the same time, Wai Lin can wreak havoc in the engine room and stop the ship before it gets out of range. Then Bond tries to defuse the rocket, but is surprised by Stamper, who has in the meantime captured Wai Lin again and now throws her into the water, tied with chains. There is a final fight between Bond and Stamper on the launch pad, where Bond has meanwhile placed the detonators for the mines. Bond quickly realizes that he has no chance against the much stronger Stamper. He stabs Stamper in the stomach with a knife, jumps overboard and saves Wai Lin. Shortly afterwards, the exhaust jet of the launching rocket destroys the detonators, causing the mines to detonate and the stealth ship to explode together with the stamper and the rocket.

production

After the global success of Goldeneye , the following 18th James Bond film had to prove that the success was not just a flash in the pan and re-establish the James Bond series as a fixture in the film business. The MGM studio had high expectations for the film and put the producers under tremendous pressure. In addition, the next film would be the first in the series after the death of producer Albert R. Broccoli .

script

Bruce Feirstein, who had previously worked on the script at GoldenEye , drafted a script that dealt with the impending handover of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China.

Director Roger Spottiswoode began immediately after his contract was signed in order to revise the script, whose title at this time Tomorrow never lies (dt. The morning never lies ) was. He gathered seven writers, including Robert Collector and Nicholas Meyer , over a weekend to come up with ideas for improving the script. Meyer was chosen to revise the script. Daniel Petrie, Jr. and David Campbell Wilson later also revised the script before Feirstein again made the final changes. In the finished film only Feirstein is named as the scriptwriter. The final script was only available a week before shooting began.

title

The film title is the second of a Bond film (after License to Kill 1989) that has no relation to Bonds' inventor, Ian Fleming .

The original English title is the result of a mistake. One of the designs was loud director Roger Spottiswoode Tomorrow Never Lies (dt. The morning never lies ), in reference to the Beatles -Song Tomorrow Never Knows . This was sent along with other fax it to MGM, where, however, by an error Tomorrow Never Dies (dt. Tomorrow Never Dies ) was from what the producers so well-liked that the fault to the final film title was.

The German translation of the title easily leads to a misunderstanding: "Tomorrow" strictly speaking means "Das Morgen" (in the sense of "the next day") and not "Der Morgen", which would correspond to the English "morning". But since the “morning” means Carver's newspaper “MORGEN”, the masculine article prevailed.

occupation

Martin Campbell , who directed GoldenEye , did not want to direct two back-to-back films, so Roger Spottiswoode was chosen as the new director. While he was revising the script, the cast began.

Pierce Brosnan had signed several Bond films and was to play the lead again. With him, Judi Dench as M, Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny and Joe Don Baker as Jack Wade returned to the roles they had already played in GoldenEye . In addition, Desmond Llewelyn played the Q.

Bond's opponent this time was the media mogul Elliot Carver. The role was offered to Anthony Hopkins , who turned it down despite initial interest. Eventually, Jonathan Pryce could be won over to the role.

The Bond girl Paris Carver was played by Teri Hatcher, who was already known from the television series Superman - The Adventures of Lois & Clark . She shot the final episode of the television series on a Monday, flew to the UK on Tuesday and began filming Tomorrow Never Dies on Wednesday . During the filming, she was three months pregnant, but that did not affect the work.

The small role of Inga Bergstrom, in which Bond takes language lessons, was given to Cecilie Thomsen , who was then the girlfriend of rock musician Bryan Adams . The role of Wai Lin was played by Michelle Yeoh, who has appeared in numerous Asian action films.

The German actor Götz Otto got the role as Carver's assistant Stamper. When he met producer Barbara Broccoli, she gave him twenty seconds to introduce himself. He said, “I'm tall, I'm angry, I'm bald and German. Five seconds, keep the rest. "

Gerard Butler made one of his first screen appearances as a crew member on HMS Devonshire in The Morning Never Dies .

The German actress Antje Schmidt plays a small role, not mentioned in the credits, as an employee of the car rental company that Bond hands over his car in Hamburg.

Title design

As with GoldenEye , Daniel Kleinman again took on the design of the film title sequence.

Tomorrow Never Dies is about the power of mass media in the modern world. To illustrate this in the film titles, the female silhouettes only appear human-like, but on closer inspection they turn out to be technical objects that move in a digital world. X-rays allow a view into the interior of technical objects. Diamonds become satellites orbiting in space, which can be seen as a reminiscence of the title sequence of the film Diamond Fever .

Filming

The second film team began shooting the opening sequence on January 18, 1997 at an airport at Col de Peyresourde in the French Pyrenees. It was directed by Vic Armstrong, a former stuntman who had appeared in the filming of You Only Live twice . Then they went to Portsmouth to record scenes in which the British Navy prepares for the attack by the Chinese. It was also filmed on the HMS Westminster .

The main film team began filming on April 1, 1997. The Leavesden Film Studios set up for GoldenEye were occupied, so new stages were created in a nearby industrial complex and also shot on the "007 Stage" in Pinewood Studios .

Some scenes were supposed to be created in Ho Chi Minh City . However, the approval that had already been granted was withdrawn and the team had to look for an alternative at short notice, which was finally found in Thailand. In the meantime, recordings took place at Lakenheath and Mildenhall Air Force Bases . The love scene between the main characters was filmed at the golf club in Stoke Park, where recordings for Goldfinger had already been made.

Then you went to Thailand to there u. a. To film the stunt in which a motorcycle jumps over a helicopter.

Back in England, scenes were filmed in which Bond remote controls the BMW while on a car chase. The parking garage of the Brent Cross shopping center in north-west London served as the location for the scenes in the Hamburg film. A total of 17 BMW 740iL were used for the film, but they were shown as 750iL in the film. Eight of them were destroyed during filming.

On July 17, Pierce Brosnan was hit in the face by a stuntman's helmet while shooting and had to be sewn with eight stitches. In many of the following recordings he could therefore only be shown in profile.

Other locations were Mexico and Florida. In Mexico, most of the underwater scenes were shot in the Baja studios, in tanks that had recently been used for the filming of Titanic .

The exterior view of the Hotel Atlantic was taken in Hamburg . However, the scenes that take place in the hotel had already been filmed at Stoke Park Golf Club , and the aforementioned parking garage in London served as the hotel's car park during the chase. However, the end of the chase, in which the BMW crashes into a car rental branch, was recorded on site in Hamburg. For this purpose, part of the Kaufhoff branch was redecorated as Avis car rental. Also at the Hamburg airport recordings were made.

Shooting ended in September 1997.

Locations

• London
• Hamburg
• France:
  • Paris
  • Peyresourde Airport
  • Courchevel Airport (Savoie Department)
• Mexico
• Thailand
• Pinewood Studios

Gadgets

One of the BMWs used in the filming

• Ericsson JB988 mobile phone with remote control for Bond's company car, Dietrich in the antenna, fingerprint scanner and electroshock defenses .
• BMW 740iL , 4.4 V8 with 210 kW / 286 PS, declared in the film as BMW 750iL , 5.4 V12 with 240 kW / 326 PS , with the following "accessories": rockets in the sunroof, self-inflating tires , crow's feet to close the tires of chasing cars destroy cable cutter under the manufacturer's logo , enhanced anti-theft device ( electric shock electrodes in the door handles, tear gas nozzles), and an extra-strong titanium - armor .
• Lighter that acts as a hand grenade (opening scene).

Some other gadgets do not come from Q , but from the holdings of the Chinese secret service. These include, for example, a fire-breathing dragon , a fan with steel cables and a wristwatch with an integrated explosive device. This is the Chinese replica of the watch from the previous Bond film , an Omega Seamaster Professional.

Film music

The soundtrack was composed by David Arnold.

The theme song Tomorrow Never Dies , written by Sheryl Crow and Mitchell Froom and interpreted by Sheryl Crow, reached number 12 in the UK charts.

Originally kd langs Surrender by David Arnold and David McAlmont (music) and Don Black (Text) provided as the title song. The title of the song should be Tomorrow Never Dies . Since Sheryl Crow was better known in the opinion of the producers, a new song was recorded by her without further ado. Lang's song was supplemented by the word "Surrender" in the chorus and used as the final title. At this point, Lang's song was already incorporated into the soundtrack as a leitmotif.

In addition, the songs Backseat Driver by David Arnold and Alex Gifford from the Propellerheads and It Had To Be You can be heard in a version by Simon Greenaway in the film.

The classical piece of music "Danish Lesson" is the beginning of the second movement (Adagio) from the 5th Piano Concerto in E flat major, Op. 73, by Ludwig van Beethoven.

The soundtrack was first released on CD in 1997 by A&M Records . In 2000, a new version with more audio pieces from the film was released, based on the VHS / DVD cover as a template. The title song was missing from this edition for legal reasons.

Original edition (November 1997)

1. Tomorrow Never Dies (04:47) sung by Sheryl Crow
2. White Knight (8:30 am)
3. The Sinking of the Devonshire (7:07 am)
4. Company Car (03:08)
5. Station Break (03:30)
6. Paris and Bond (01:55)
7. The Last Goodbye (01:34)
8. Hamburg Break In (02:52)
9. Hamburg Break Out (01:26)
10. Doctor Kaufman (02:26)
11. * -3-Send (01:17)
12. Underwater Discovery (03:37)
13. Backseat Driver (04:37)
14. Surrender (03:56) sung by kd lang
15. James Bond Theme (03:12) interpreted by Moby

Extended Version (2000)

1. White Knight (08:29)
2. The Sinking of the Devonshire (7:06 am)
3. Company Car (03:07)
4. Paris & Bond (01:55)
5. The Last Goodbye (01:33)
6. Hamburg Break-In (02:53)
7. Hamburg Break-Out (01:24)
8. Doctor Kaufman (02:27)
9. * -3- Send (01:15)
10. Back Seat Driver (04:34)
11. Underwater Discovery (03:36)
12. Helicopter Ride (01:34)
13. Bike Chase (06:44)
14. Bike Shop Fight (02:42)
15. Kowloon Bay (02:27)
16. Boarding The Stealth (4:38 am)
17. A Tricky Spot For 007 (02:48)
18. All In A Day's Work (05:09)
19. Exclusive David Arnold Interview (11:02)

synchronization

role	actor	German voice actors
James Bond	Pierce Brosnan	Frank Glaubrecht
Carver	Jonathan Pryce	Lutz Mackensy
Wai Lin	Michelle Yeoh	Arianne Borbach
Paris	Teri Hatcher	Marion von Stengel
Gupta	Ricky Jay	Roland Hemmo
Stamper	Götz Otto	Götz Otto
calf	Joe Don Baker	Klaus Sunshine
Merchant	Vincent Schiavelli	Eberhard Prüter
M.	Judi Dench	Gisela Fritsch
Q	Desmond Llewelyn	Manfred Schmidt
Moneypenny	Samantha Bond	Anita Lochner
Robinson	Colin Salmon	Detlef Bierstedt
Admiral Roebuck	Geoffrey Palmer	Wolfgang Völz

premiere

The film premiered on December 9, 1997 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. It was the first Bond film since 1977 that no member of the royal family attended the premiere. The film opened in Germany on December 18, 1997.

Aftermath

Financial success

Tomorrow never dies was the hoped-for financial success for the film studio. In the United States, the film had 26.7 million viewers and grossed approximately $ 125 million, including 25 million on the opening weekend alone. The film had 4.5 million viewers in Germany and grossed around 460 million US dollars worldwide.

In 2012, global box office income adjusted for inflation was reported as $ 479 million, which is the 16th place out of 23 Bond films.

Contemporary criticism

At the time of its premiere, the film received mixed reviews.

Roger Ebert praised that the series “fit for the 21st century” appeared on the basis of this film. The Palm Beach Post found the film “very exciting” and even wrote: “Sean who? It's official: Pierce Brosnan is James Bond. ”The Herald was also positive when he wrote“ Tomorrow never dies will delight fans. ”

The film also received many negative reviews, the Daily Mail wrote , " GoldenEye seemed to be reinventing the series, but this [film] is taking several steps backwards." The Times ruled the film "takes all the glitz from Pierce Brosnan's successful performance." in GoldenEye and throws it away. "

The film service wrote: “Despite some remarkable moments of tension, impressive images of the locations and ironic dialogues, the film is subject to a genre convention that calls for material battles with only a few pauses. The main character's charisma, which is necessary for Bond films, also suffers from this. "

Later evaluation

In retrospect, the film is often viewed as an average contribution to the James Bond franchise, as evidenced by its placements in numerous rankings in recent years.

The magazine Entertainment Weekly created a ranking of the James Bond films as early as 2006, barely ten years after the publication of Tomorrow Never Dies , with the film ranking 15th out of 21. In the same year, the staff of the multimedia website IGN rated the Bond films and voted Tomorrow Never Dies at number 13.

Five years later, between 2011 and 2012, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with Tomorrow Never Dies reaching number 13 out of 22 films.

In 2012, the Bond films were also rated by the readers of 007 Magazine , Tomorrow Never Dies took 15th place out of 24. In a likewise 2012 published list of Rolling Stone takes Tomorrow Never Dies but only number 21 of 24 James Bond films one. In the special issue 50 Years of James Bond by Stern , published in 2012, the film was rated 3 out of 5 stars (“solid”) and described as a “rather mixed contribution to the series”. Brad Brevet named it one of the top five James Bond films that year, while Time Out magazine named it the second worst film.

Adaptations

literature

Raymond Benson , who was commissioned to write official Bond novels in 1996, published a script-based novel that contains more plot than the film.

Video games

In November 1999 Electronic Arts released a third-person shooter for the PlayStation that is based on the plot of the film and is also called Tomorrow Never Dies .

Awards

• 1998: BMI Awards ( David Arnold , best film music )
• 1998: Golden canvas
• the title song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy in 1999 - each in the category Best Song for a Film .

publication

The film was first released on VHS by Warner Bros. in Germany in 1998. The VHS had a reversible cover to match the Classic Bond Collection released in 1995 . From 1999 the marketing rights changed to 20th Century Fox Entertainment. The first DVD version came out in 1998. At that time still in the jewel case box, later in the Amaray case that is still common today . It was released as Blu-Ray for the 50th anniversary.

The film ran for the first time on German free TV on December 29, 2000 at 8:15 p.m. on ARD.

Web links

Wikiquote: Tomorrow Never Dies  - Quotes

• James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies at Metacritic (English)
• James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies in the online movie database
• James Bond 007 - Tomorrow never dies in the German dubbing file
• Comparison of the cut versions FSK 12 TV - FSK 16 , BBFC 12 - FSK 16 by James Bond 007 - Tomorrow never dies at Schnittberichte.com

Individual evidence

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