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TOMORROW NEVER DIES

Pierce BrosnanCAST: 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. That’s 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. That’s Tomorrow for you, a paper which takes journalism to a new dimension. Pryce’s 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.

Bond’s 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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