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Die Another Day: Film – Trivia
  • In honour of the franchise’s 40th anniversary, there are references to each of the previous 19 Bond films, including:
    • Dr. No (1962)
      • Jinx (Halle Berry) walking out of the sea in a bikini, wearing a white belt and a diving knife. The synthesizer sounds from the opening credits play when Bond escapes the MI6 hospital. The gun that Jinx has to surrender to Miranda on board the plane is a Beretta Cheetah. In Dr. No, the Armorer remarks to 007 that the Beretta made a good woman’s pistol. During the “Kiss Of Life” scene, David Arnold’s film score includes samples of the same electronic sounds heard in the gun barrel sequence of Dr. No (1962). In Dr. No, Bond asks if the government house sent him a car; he uses the name “Universal Exports” in order to be patched through. In this film, Bond claims he is from Universal Exports asking about the Delectados (cigars) in order to gain access to the contact in Cuba.
    • From Russia with Love (1963)
      • The shoe with the poison-tipped blade is seen in Q’s station laboratory. There is a knife concealed in a briefcase. In the ice palace sequence, there is a game board (the chess match). Enemy spies are behind a one-way mirror in a hotel room with cameras. Graves’ engineer is seen holding the Icarus control and petting it like it is a cat. When they first meet, Jinx tells James her name, and adds, “My friends call me Jinx.” Bond replies, “Mine call me James Bond.” In From Russia with Love, Tatiana Romanova introduces herself and adds, “My friends call me Tania,” and Bond gives the same reply.
    • Goldfinger (1964)
      • Jinx is nearly cut with a laser in Mr. Kil’s laboratory. The rest of the fight scene is also a tribute. Bond once again drives a gadget-laden Aston Martin, specifically with a passenger ejector seat. The new Q comments that, as he learned from his predecessor, “I never joke about my work, 007.” The scene where Bond and Graves fence for money, only to see Bond up the stakes for one of Graves’ diamonds, is suggestive of the golf match between Bond and Auric Goldfinger. The golf match had originally been for money, until Bond throws down a gold brick to “up the stakes”. Bond is threatened with death in a depressurizing plane. Bond and Jinx receive electric shocks from a villain.
      • Oddjob was killed by electrocution. In the pre-title sequence, Bond removes a wetsuit to reveal ordinary clothes underneath.
    • Thunderball (1965)
      • The jet-pack in Q’s workshop. Bond uses a pen-like underwater breathing system. After Bond comes through the window of the medical facility in Cuba, he grabs a few grapes as he did before making his exit from a room in the medical center in Thunderball.
    • You Only Live Twice (1967)
      • Scenes of the Icarus unfolding in space are shown on screens in the Ice Palace. Jinx descends from the ceiling of the fake diamond mine on a rope system similar to that of the ninjas in the volcano crater lair. The name of the ship Bond is on: the HMS Tenby. The use of Japanese swords in the films. Bond’s death is faked (or exaggerated) in both films to free up 007’s maneuverability
    • On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
      • “OHMSS” written on a CD on Moneypenny’s desk as she types a report at the end of the film. Bond escapes from another huge avalanche. During the ice field car chase, the score references the opening to this film’s theme.
    • Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
      • While fencing with Bond, Graves says, “Well, diamonds are for everyone.” Much of the plot includes diamonds. A large satellite is uncovered in space and has the power to harness the sun’s rays and project them as a fine laser to destroy any given target. In the “High Life” magazine article for Gustav Graves’ diamond company, the caption at the bottom says, “Diamonds are forever, but life isn’t” A villain changes his appearance. One character calls another “Bitch!” in a single line.
      • This was, famously, the first strong curse word used in a Bond film.
    • Live and Let Die (1973)
      • The laser causes row upon row of explosions across a vegetated area, in this case detonating thousands of land mines, and is reminiscent of the extermination of Kananga’s poppy fields. Bond uses the same revolver used on the island of St. Monique.
    • The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
      • The corridors in the secret area of the Gene Technology department in the Cuban hospital contain rotating mirrors and objects, much like Scaramanga’s Fun Palace. The Field office of MI6 is on a ship. Bond retrieves a diamond from Jinx’s navel (bullet in the belly-dancer’s navel). There is a solar-powered superweapon.
    • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
      • Graves uses a Union Jack parachute. The Ice Palace resembles in some ways Stromberg’s Atlantis hideout. When Madonna’s character is introduced, a few bars of “Nobody Does it Better” is heard.
    • Moonraker (1979)
      • Moon’s hovercraft falls down by a large waterfall in a manner similar to Jaws’ boat going over the Iguaçu Falls. Bond surfaces in a bubbling pool of water surrounded by much interior vegetation, similar to the scene with the water python in Drax’s headquarters. Both films have spies named Chang. Bond’s sword fight with Graves was much like the fight with Chang in the glass factory. Bond and a villain fight over a parachute.
    • For Your Eyes Only (1981)
      • The scene as Bond hangs onto the ice cliff (before it collapses) resembles the climax near the monastery, especially as the rope slips and Bond drops some distance further down the cliff, although this time it was all performed from a vehicle. THe yellow diving helmet in Q’s lab.
    • Octopussy (1983)
      • Both the crocodile submarine and the AcroStar MiniJet are visible in the background in Q’s station laboratory. Upping the stakes on a bet with the villain (see also Goldfinger). Jinx’s backward fall to escape echoes Magda’s exit from Bond’s suite. Q’s coil of “magic rope” being kept on the lowest shelf in the Q lab, along with a lot of the five-pointed knife.
    • A View to a Kill (1985)
      • Bond is suspended over a cliff on the wire and hook much like the Russian Guard in the Siberian chase that Bond catches. Bond once again uses a rather unorthodox method of skiing, this time the hatch from the back of the car. Graves watches over the destruction that he wreaks from the front windows of his aircraft in the same way that Zorin watched Silicon Valley from his aircraft before it flooded. The electronic snooper is in Q’s lab.
    • The Living Daylights (1987)
      • Cars exit the rear cargo hold of the plane. Bond’s Aston Martin had retractable spikes in the tires controlled by a switch labeled traction. When Bond is driving Graves’ rocket car, he drives through a patch of trees and bits are shorn off, just as the skis on the Aston Martin are removed by trees in The Living Daylights.
    • Licence to Kill (1989)
      • The plot idea of Bond going renegade, although this time it is less through choice. M rescinds Bond’s licence to kill. Bond uses a rifle as a sniper. When Bond disarms the Chinese “masseuse”, she has her weapon concealed in exactly the same fashion as Pam Bouvier. A projectile misses Bond’s car when it passes underneath. The hanging yellow laser controller in Kil’s lab is the same one that operates the trap door over the shark tank in Krest’s warehouse. Bond puts the Alvarez Clinic ticket inside his right jacket pocket, and later pulls it out of the left one. In Licence to Kill, Bond puts his aeroplane ticket first into his inner left jacket pocket, only to inexplicably remove it later on from his inner right jacket pocket.
    • GoldenEye (1995)
      • Bond’s watch contains a laser, which he uses to cut through a section of ice, reminiscent of his escape from the train by cutting through the floor. Jinx sets the timer for the bomb at the gene therapy lab in Cuba to three minutes, the same three minutes that Bond set the timers for in the chemical weapons lab and later Trevelyan set the timers for on the bullet train. Bond is betrayed by a fellow agent. A man is killed by a falling ice chandelier, reminiscent of Trevelyan’s death GoldenEye. Bond says to Jinx that “the cold must have kept you alive”
      • In Goldeneye Bond tells Natalya Simonova that being cold is what keeps him alive. The opening title sequences feature a gold eye that opens. Jinx makes a dive from the DNA compound wall into the sea which is very similar to Bond’s dive from the dam in GoldenEye. The US command bunker in South Korea has computer monitors suspended from the ceiling, looking very similar to the monitors suspended from the ceiling in the Severnaya control room in GoldenEye.
    • Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
      • Jinx throws a knife straight into a guard’s throat just as he comes through a door
      • This is similar to a scene on the Stealth Ship where Wai-Lin sticks a Shuriken throwing star into a guard’s throat just as he finds her (this scene is deleted from some Tomorrow Never Dies releases on VHS and DVD). Remote control car. Jinx descends on grappling lines, reminiscent of Wai-Lin’s entrance/escape. Bond escapes by being tethered and running down a wall similar to Wai-Lin’s escape. There is a fake headline on Moneypenny’s computer. In the pre-credits sequence in Korea, Bond jumps onto a hovercraft and spins round firing missiles, much like the pre-credits sequence of Tomorrow Never Dies where Bond spins a military jet and uses its guns and missiles. A Chinese character called Chang. The footage showing a ship launching the anti-satellite missile, is exactly the same footage used in the opening scene of TND, where the ship launches a cruise missile against the terrorist camp.
    • The World Is Not Enough (1999)
      • Bond dives over Graves as they fence to do a forward roll as he lands, in a manner similar to the shoot-out between Renard’s men and himself where he dives through a closing door and rolls the other side. As Bond dives to safety from Moon’s flamethrower on the hovercraft, the shot of his dive from in front is almost identical to another scene where Bond is diving from an exploding bomb with Christmas. The use of a geodesic dome.
      • Bond’s training program is essentially the same as the second level of the game.
      • Some of the incidental music (minus of course the James Bond Theme, which is used in every film) is re-used in this film, notably at the end as Bond beds Jinx.
      • The cars Zao owns are all updated model of former Bond cars Q mentions in his station laboratory as he hands Bond his new watch: “This is your twentieth, I believe,” in a nod to this being the twentieth film occurring on the fortieth anniversary.
  • The license plate number of James Bond’s Aston Martin Vanquish was KEO2 EWW.
  • The Ice Palace in the film was inspired by the real life Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden. Producer Barbara Broccoli first saw a photo of it in a magazine while traveling on a plane and thought it would make a good set-piece for a Bond film. The actual location is two hundred kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. Ice Hotels or similar structures like an Ice Palace, Ice Museum, Snow Castle or Ice Castle have existed in Norway, Finland, Canada, Romania and Russia but never such a building has existed in Iceland where some of the ice palace environs were shot.
  • Although it ranked fifth in the box office on its opening weekend in South Korea, there was protest at the film’s depiction of Americans giving orders to the South Korean military. The film dropped out of the top ten by its second week and one theater in Seoul pulled it from the screens in response to the protests. Some smaller theatres that usually get second-run films refused not pick it up.
  • First time that James Bond sports a beard in a James Bond film. Pierce Brosnan is shown having more than just a few day’s growth after being held captive for a considerable amount of time. The closest shave to prior to this was the James Bond send-up OK Connery (1967) where Sean Connery’s brother Neil Connery had a beard spoofing his brother’s James Bond image.
  • While the film negative went through the traditional photochemical printing process, the entire first reel, including the opening pre-title sequence, was instead digital graded. The digital lab (Framestore CFC) also worked on the Hovercraft battle sequence, creating a gritty look with enhanced explosions through to Bond’s eventual release from captivity as well as a key sequence that would normally have required sky replacements.
  • First ever credited acting performance in a James Bond film for producer Michael G. Wilson as General Chandler. He can also be seen uncredited as a Man leaning against a car in Cuba. Wilson had made an uncredited cameo appearance in every EON Productions James Bond film since The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as well as doing an early one in Goldfinger (1964). His first ever screen credit for acting though was not for this film but for All the Way Home (1971) (TV).
  • When confronting Bond, Miranda Frost says “I know all about you, 007. It’s Sex for dinner and death for breakfast.” The line “Death for breakfast” is the title of Chapter 11 in the Ian Fleming novel “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”.
  • Only five cars in the entire film do not belong to either Ford or Ford’s Premier Automotive Group (Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo). There are two Ferrari F355’s, a Porsche 911, a Mercedes SL and a Lamborghini Diablo. All of these cars (except possibly the Merc) get damaged / destroyed / dropped out of the back of a plane. None of the Fords get damaged at all. It is also worth noting that none of the other manufacturers’ cars are examples of the latest models, whereas Ford is using all of its latest or prototype models.
  • The title is derived from a phrase from a poem by ‘AE Housman’ , “But since the man that runs away / lives to die another day”.
  • The R1 DVD release commentary reveals that the film was inspired by the original Fleming novel of “Moonraker”. The only element of the novel to survive to the end, after a fashion, was the duel between Bond and Graves in a club called Blades. In the original novel, Bond and villain Drax have a different sort of duel in Blades – a game of cards. This is the first Bond film since Licence to Kill (1989) to take inspiration from a Fleming novel. The character of Miranda Frost was originally named Gala Brand. This was the name of the Bond girl in Ian Fleming’s novel “Moonraker”.
  • The film also contains references to the novels in several points: the cigarette poster of a sailor seen behind John Cleese is referenced in “Thunderball”, the basic plot is from “Moonraker” and the sheet of protective glass between Bond and M references “The Man With The Golden Gun”.
  • In the scene where Jinx first appears, Bond claims that he is there on account of birdwatching. Ian Fleming was a keen bird watcher, and the name James Bond was inspired by an American bird watcher of the same name (See James Bond)
  • In the scene where Jinx first appears, Bond claims that he is there on account of birdwatching. Ian Fleming was a keen bird watcher, and the name James Bond was inspired by an American bird watcher of the same name.
  • The character Wai Lin, played by Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies, was originally supposed to make her return, aiding Bond in Hong Kong, but no arrangement could be worked out with the actress and she was replaced by Chinese Intelligence agent (and hotelier) Chang. Wai Lin’s presence is confirmed by an extra on the DVD release concerning the writing of the script: Barbara Broccoli is shown leafing through an early script, and it clearly contains lines for Wai Lin.
  • Will Yun Lee plays a character named Colonel Moon. There is a James Bond novel by Kingsley Amis, written (under the pseudonym Robert Markham) shortly after Ian Fleming’s death, entitled “Colonel Sun”. It was Amis’s only Bond novel. The full name of Colonel Moon is Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, making the connection to Amis’ novel even more explicit.
  • The knife which Jinx uses to cut the fruit while in bed with James is the KER1600, manufactured by Kershaw.
  • The frozen lake in Iceland that is the location for some car chases, does not freeze very often naturally. This is due to its closeness to the sea and its high salt content. When the filmmakers had troubles getting the Icelandic lake to freeze properly, they considered filming the car chase scenes on ice in New Zealand. To rectify this situation the river that links the lake to the sea was dammed and within two days the entire lake was frozen to a depth of over 2 meters. Once they solved that problem, filming could take place in Iceland as planned.
  • The car that Bond drives in Cuba is a 1957 Ford Fairlane.
  • The opening surfing sequences were filmed at a location in Hawaii known as “Jaws”. This is an obscure reference to Jaws, the villain in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
  • The UK premiere was in the Royal Albert Hall in London in presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
  • The route diagram on the station wall in the disused tube station where Q introduces Bond to the new Aston indicates that the station is on the Piccadilly line and that the next station is Hyde Park Corner followed by Knightsbridge etc. Reference to the current tube map suggests that this station is Green Park (the station before Hyde Park Corner). However there is a real disused station on the Piccadilly Line between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner. It was called Down Street and was closed in the 1930s. It was used during the war as a temporary Cabinet War Rooms, and later by the Railway Executive as offices. Even today, much of the internal infrastructure is complete, but it could not be used in the way shown in the film because, although the station is closed, the tracks through it are still in normal daily use by Piccadilly line trains.
  • As always with the James Bond series, several rumors anticipated the making of this film. – Some said that former American president ‘Bill Clinton’ would play exactly the part of an American politician, and that all the film would be shot in Ireland, as a kind of reference to Pierce Brosnan’s homeland. In these rumors, the plot would be about the kidnapping of the British Premier in Dublin, and the villain would be an American played by ‘Kevin Spacey’ . Of course, none of this gossip were proved true. – Published reports in 2001 indicated that Whitney Houston was being considered for a role in this film. At the pre production stage, Saffron Burrows and Salma Hayek were both considered for roles in the film. It was also rumored that Billy Connolly was asked to play the part of a villain in the teaser sequence, but turned it down. – According to television news reports on 11 November 2002, Sean Connery filmed a cameo as James Bond’s father. However, this has been denied by producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli who later said on record it would be pointless to spend the money and effort to get Connery and then not use his scene. – Some other rumors said that the film would be called “Beyond the Ice” or “Final Assingment”. Despite that, one rumor that linked director Brett Ratner to the production was true, but the producers preferred a non-American director.
  • Madonna’s cameo was the final scene shot during principal filming.
  • Actress Deborah Moore makes a brief appearance in the film as the Air Hostess. She is the daughter of a former James Bond, actor Roger Moore.
  • The large hovercraft in the pre-title sequence is a British-made Griffon 2000TD
  • The brief shot of a missile being fired from a frigate (to destroy Icarus) is recycled footage from Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
  • When James Bond introduces himself to Gustav before they fight, Madonna was originally to introduce him with the catchphrase “Bond. James Bond.” However, it was later decided fans may prefer the line coming from Pierce Brosnan.
  • A knee injury to Pierce Brosnan delayed shooting for a few weeks.
  • Only the second Bond film to feature James Bond’s office. It was last seen in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969).
  • When Q explains how the Vanquish works, he is explaining technology that the US Air Force is actually developing for use in a new “daylight” stealth aircraft. However, the “invisibility” capability is only useful at extreme distance (miles), and would not in any way be as good as depicted on the car in this film.
  • When Bond enters the Cuban clinic through the hidden door, you can hear a sample of the brainwashing noise used in The Ipcress File (1965). A nod to another British agent, Harry Palmer.
  • For the first time, the famous gun barrel sequence now includes a bullet zooming by after Bond fires.
  • Following her Best Actress win at the 2002 Oscars, Halle Berry became the first Academy Award-winner to be a “Bond Girl”, although only just – she won the award while shooting this film (Kim Basinger (Never Say Never Again (1983)) won her Oscar for L.A. Confidential (1997) long after she had been a “Bond Girl”, and “Never Say…” isn’t part of the official Bond series anyway).
  • At the pre production stage, Saffron Burrows and Salma Hayek were both considered for roles in the film. It was also rumored that Billy Connolly was asked to play the part of a villain in the teaser sequence, but turned it down.
  • Some location filming took place at ‘The Eden Project’ near St Austell, Cornwall in the United Kingdom in the first week of March 2002.
  • Sequences featuring a Korean beach were partly filmed at Holywell Bay near Newquay in Cornwall, United Kingdom over several evenings in February/March 2002. The local Holywell surf hut was transformed into a North Korean pill box and a small forest of pine trees were planted in the dunes behind to mimic a remote shore.
  • To get the Aston Martin and Jaguar (both rear wheel drive) to perform on ice, the filmmakers had to modify them into four-wheel-drive cars.
  • Both the Aston Martin and the Jaguar were completely stripped of engine and running gear. These were replaced by the Ford V8, 4WD kit and 4spd Auto ‘box from Ford’s Explorer. This was to help them perform on ice.
  • The Jaguar driven by Zao is not a production car, but only a prototype supposedly showcasing the next generation XKR. The design has now been changed, however, so the car in the film will never see production.
  • For the sword fight, film makers decreased the film speed to make it look as if the actors were moving faster than they actually were.
  • The film set a new record for merchandising with $120 million worth of deals with twenty four various companies for product placement and/or tie-ins. These included vehicles Aston Martin Vanquish, Jaguar XKR convertible, 2003 James Bond Edition Ford Thunderbird and Ski-Doo Snowmobile; drinks Bollinger Champagne, Finlandia Vodka, Heineken Beer, 7 Up, and Ty Nant curvy PET bottles; Revlon cosmetics OO7 Color Collection; Brioni suit tailoring; Electronic Arts video game James Bond 007: Nightfire (2002) (VG); British Airways and Samsonite Luggage; Mattel OO7 Barbie Collector’s Edition set; Omega Seamaster Swatch Watches; Phillips Electronics Philishave Sensotec and Norelco Spectra Shavers; Kodak Cameras; Vodaphone and Sony Ericsson Mobile Phones; Visa; Energizer Batteries; Phillips Heart Rate Monitor; Sony Security Systems, TV Cameras and Laptop pcs; and retail outlets Circuit City and Best Buy.
  • Bond returns to smoking (cigars) for the first time since Licence to Kill (1989). Also marks the first time Bond has smoked a cigar since Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974) .
  • Sequences where James Bond travels in 1st Class aboard a passenger plane, and where he holds onto the front wheel of the plane as the landing gear deploys, and finally walks from the aircraft after it has landed, were filmed in March 2001 in British Airways engineering bases at Heathrow Airport, using green screens and a fan.
  • The fictional abandoned station on the London Underground where Bond meets M, Vauxhall Cross, is a reference to the address of the real MI6 headquarters in London, located at 85 Vauxhall Cross (approximately five minutes’ drive from where Bond enters the station).
  • Bond (while talking to Q), refers to what looks like a fatal injury to M in a simulation program as a “flesh wound” – in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Cleese refers to the cutting off of various body parts in a battle with Graham Chapman as “merely a flesh wound.” It’s a common enough phrase, but the Python connection does give it more resonance.
  • The futuristic weapon that Colonel Moon uses during parts of the chase after the opening sequence did really exist when the film was made, at least in prototype form. It’s a Heckler and Koch OICW (Objective Individual Combat Weapon), a weapon developed as the future’s infantry assault rifle as part of the US Army’s “Soldier 2000” program. It consist of a grenade launcher mounted on top of a ‘regular’ 5.56mm (.223) caliber assault rifle, as well as a digital camera within the optic sights. This digital camera is supposed to be linked to a display within the soldier’s helmet, enabling him to look/shoot around corners, as well as transmitting live footage of a combat situation to his troop commander or a higher superior.
  • The V12 engine in the Aston Martin Vanquish was switched with a small block Ford V8 to make room for machine guns etc. The 6-speed sequential transmission was also changed to a 3-speed auto transmission.
  • The odd-looking weapon Colonel Moon uses in the opening sequence is a prototype of the Heckler and Koch Objective Individual Combat Weapon (OICW), part of a current US Army research and development effort. It really does fire grenades, although they aren’t “anti-tank”.
  • The magazine with the picture of Gustav Graves that Bond reads on the British Airways flight is the real in-flight magazine for British Airways. Called “High Life”, the edition seen was for the month of November 2002. The Magazine in fact interviews the actor playing Graves about his part and includes an article on all previous Bond films and their respective stunts.
  • A huge 20,000-watt light array which took a week to construct was used for the Icarus demonstration scene.
  • The device used to identify Bond in the beginning is a Sony Ericsson P800 PDA/Mobile Phone. Though it would require some custom programming to get that fancy look on the screen (not to mention someone on the receiving end making the actual visual match), it is actually possible for it to perform that task.
  • The uniforms which James Bond and Jinx wear in the climax action sequence have small Korean character name tags which read “Chang-Choen 1 dong dae”. It means these are uniforms of civilian reserved troops of Chang Choen town in Seoul, part of a security training team.
  • In the first scene at the North Korean beach, two North Korean soldiers are talking. It means “What the hell is the taste of this cigarette? / I can give you American tobacco.”
  • Icarus was originally called Solaris but was changed when the producers found out that Solaris (2002) was in production.
  • The painting that gets slashed during the swordfight between Bond and Graves is a reproduction of Thomas Gainsborough’s famous “Blue Boy” from 1770. The original “Blue Boy” hangs in the Huntington Library (San Marino, Calif.) The reproduction was hand-painted by Lyons Corner House Fine Art Reproductions in London.
  • The first Bond film to open on an even-numbered year (2002) since The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
  • According to the book “The Bond Legacy”, it was decided to delay production of the film in order to have a 2002 release date, in part to coincide with both the 40th anniversary of the first James Bond film, but also the 50th anniversary of the writing of the first Bond novel.
  • A sequel was planned, featuring Halle Berry’s character Jinx as the lead. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote for two months and even a director was hired (Stephen Frears). However, after the failure of other female-character-driven action films like Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) MGM pulled the plug on the project.
  • Some of the actresses mentioned during the production as potential Bond girls were Catherine Zeta-Jones, model Kelly Brook and dancer Jean Butler.
  • Iceland had a noticeable increase of tourist interest in year following the film’s premier, mostly from people seeking to stay in an ice hotel such as shown in the film. No such structure exists in Iceland, which is not nearly cold enough for such a building in the first place, despite its name.
  • Due to Philips products being known as Norelco in the USA, the Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care (DAP) unit of Philips provide Bond shaving with a Philishave Sensotec shaver in non-USA prints and a Norelco Spectra shaver for the USA.
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