TOMORROW NEVER DIES
CAST: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce,
Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher,
Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn
DIRECTOR:
Roger Spottiswoode
PRODUCERS:
Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
SCREENWRITER:
Bruce Feirstein
MUSIC
COMPOSER: David Arnold
He is a cunning
linguist who always enjoys learning a new tongue, with a sense of humour
as undiluted as his vodka. He is James Bond, shaken and not stirred, with
a dash of extra dare-devilry added on for flavour. Thats the new avatar
of James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies, a film where even the villain, Elliot
Carver, played with great relish by Jonathan Pryce, is unlike his predecessors.
The writer,
Bruce Feirstein, has defined a new world order where media mogul Carver,
a la Rupert Murdoch, can shake the foundations of governments with some
sensational headlines. But this newspaperman is slightly more ambitious,
believing in first making the news and then breaking it, with many front
page stories being written before they actually happen. Thats Tomorrow
for you, a paper which takes journalism to a new dimension. Pryces
media mogul, seeking something more than holding the world to ransom with
his satellite reach, brings colour to the existing gallery of Bond villains,
with a wife (played by Teri Hatcher)
who
has had a past with Bond himself.
Bonds
assignment is simple: to stop this man who is responsible for pitting the
British against the Chinese by creating a crisis and reporting it through
his media vehicles. For help, Bond has a woman as his Chinese counterpart,
played by Michelle Yeoh, with kung fu for a signature fragrance. Deftly directed
by Roger Spottiswoode. |
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