World Is Not Enough, The: Film – Trivia- “Orbis non sufficit,” Latin for “the world is not enough”, is the motto of the Bond family as given in both the novel and the film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969).
- The amount of credit in Sir Robert King’s final statement from the Swiss Bank was £3,030,303.03. With the calculation based on the exchange rate in the film, this equaled the ransom amount for Elektra which was $US 5,000.000.
- The opening sequence boat chase took six weeks to shoot.
- The card number of James Bond’s Visa Card skeleton key card was 4000 1234 5678 9010.
- The opening sequence boat chase took seven weeks to shoot.
- The name of the Swiss Bank was La Banque Suisse de L’Industrie.
- The King Industries Pipeline crossed five countries (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Azerbaijan and Turkey), its nearest competition was three Russian pipelines and its length was eight hundred miles long.
- The registration identifier of the turbo prop plane was F-GOGN.
- The boat chase was not originally intended to be part of the opening sequence but test audiences indicated that the jump out of the window opener was not exciting enough. As such, the boat chase was brought forward and had to be shortened. As it is now, the Bilbao – Mi6 HQ – Boat Chase opener is still the longest pre-credits sequence ever in a James Bond film.
- The name of Renard’s Sunseeker Power Boat was Seven Heaven.
- The license plate number of Zukovsky’s white Rolls Royce was AD 065.
- The King Helicopter Eurocopter 355 Twin Star with 5-blade buzz-saw had the registration identifier of G-BPRJ.
- Vehicles featured included Q’s unfinished fishing boat, the Q-boat or Bentz Q-boat; a silver metallic 400 hp gadget-laden BMW Z8 convertible roadster; the King Helicopter Eurocopter 355 Twin Star with 5-blade buzz-saw and Aerospatiale HH-65A Dauphin helicopters; The Cigar Girl’s hot air balloon and Sunseeker Superhawk 34 motor yacht; Valentin Zukvosky’s Rolls Royce Silver Shadow; a Lada Niva 4WD ute; an army jeep; a Russian Atomic submarine; a satellite image of the famous silver birch Aston Martin DB5 (its other shots were cut); a turboprop powered STOL medium transport Casa C-212-200 Aviocar airplane and parachute propelled parahawk snowmobiles commonly known as Parahawks.
- Apparently, in an earlier version of the script, the Christmas Jones character here played by Denise Richards had a different profession: She was a Polynesian insurance investigator.
- The Millennium Dome which features in the opening sequence is built at the same location area as part of the Beckton Gas Works used to be. This was where the opening helicopter sequence was filmed in For Your Eyes Only (1981).
- Thirty five boats were used to film the opening boat chase sequence.
- When M.I.6, the actual British Foreign Intelligence agency, learned that a scene from this film would shot around their headquarters building, they moved to prohibit it citing a security risk. However, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, at the urging of Arts Minister Janet Anderson moved to overrule them and allow the shoot, stating “After all Bond has done for Britain, it was the least we could do for Bond.”
- For the first time since On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), a Bond film ends with a reprise of the James Bond Theme, instead of with a song.
- In the scene where Bond is traveling through the waterways of London on his speedboat, he soaks two officers in the process of clamping a car. They’re the two stars of the BBC show “The Clampers”. They did not know what they were there for and were just told to clamp the car.
- The Scottish Castle used as MI6’s secret headquarters is the same castle used in Highlander (1986). It’s called “Eilean Donan Castle” and is located near the Isle of Skye, West Scotland.
- In the Scottish Headquarters castle, a portrait of Bernard Lee (the original M) hangs behind the current M’s desk.
- Elektra’s villa in Baku is in reality an historical vacation palace in Istanbul, Turkey.
- When the film was released on home video, it was dedicated to Desmond Llewelyn and included a video montage of his various appearances as Q.
- The filming of the boat chase sequence was broadcast live over the Internet via webcam set up at specific points over the River Thames.
- Published newspaper reports during production of the film indicated that, as the last Bond film of the millennium, this would feature cameos by virtually every surviving previous Bond girl. Ursula Andress, Diana Rigg, Famke Janssen and Barbara Bach were mentioned by name as among those slated to appear. Sadly, this idea – if it was ever more than a media rumor – never came to fruition.
- First Bond film in Dolby Digital EX 6.1 sound.
- The first James Bond film that was not released or co-produced by United Artists. UA parent company MGM instead, released and co-produced the film.
- The pre-credit sequence runs approximately 15 minutes – the longest of any Bond film to date. Originally the pre-credit sequence was to end after Bond’s leap out of the Swiss banker’s office, but feedback from test screenings indicated the audience wanted something bigger.
- Rugby player Jonah Lomu was originally asked to play Bullion, but he declined.
- In the warehouse that Zukovsky has turned into an operations room, the girlie pictures seen on the walls are actually of former Bond girls.
- This film and Sleepy Hollow (1999) are the only 2 films in U.S. history to open on the same day and each gross $30 million their opening weekend.
- Desmond Llewelyn died in an auto accident soon after the film opened. Llewellyn said just before his death that he was planning to appear in the next Bond film.
- Much of Valentin Zukovsky’s (Robbie Coltrane) dialogue was extracted almost verbatim from GoldenEye (1995), such as his “extending the same courtesy” to Elektra (cf. Bond), and his ranting about the free market economy.
- To help promote the film, skywriters were hired to write “007” in skies across the U.S.
- The cigar offered to Bond in Bilbao is a Romeo Y Julieta Churchill.
- Serena Scott Thomas did her love scene with Bond herself, turning down the offer of letting a body double do it for her.
- The scene where Zukovsky is splashing around in a pool of his own caviar was filmed on actor Robbie Coltrane’s birthday.
- The Q boat can achieve 80mph on the water. During the making of the film, it was discovered only by accident that its 350 horsepower engines could literally force the bow of the boat under water. The move was written into the film.
- Before the shoots even begun, a set was being built in Turkey and it was almost done. One day when the director of the film was touring around Istanbul, a bombing event took place. Therefore the shots that included the cast was never shot in Istanbul, according to the director, due to security reasons. Not a single cast member actually went to Istanbul. The shots of Robert Carlyle and his men getting off the boat on the jetty at Electra’s palace were shot in the tank at Pinewood against a blue/green screen.
- Renard’s (Robert Carlyle) real name was Vicktor Zokas.
- The Dossier File No. for Elektra King’s Mi6 Electronic Dossier was 7634733.
- The name of Valentine Zukovsky’s (Robbie Coltrane) casino was L’Or Lloir Casino.
- The name of Renard’s cavernous lair that contained natural flames and scalding rocks was “The Devil’s Breath”.
- The product that Valentine Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane) manufactures at his Caspian Sea Plant was Beluga Caviar.
- The type of psychological condition that Elektra suffers whilst being kidnapped by Renard where a kidnapped victim falls in love with her captor is known as “Stockholm Syndrome”.
- The name of the apparatus that Christmas Jones detects in the oil-pipeline was a “Tactical Fission Device”. The amount of time left on the pipeline bomb which Dr. Christmas Jones plans to disarm was 1 minute and 40 seconds.
- The amount of weapons-grade plutonium which was stolen by Renard amounted to six kilograms. The name of the device Renard planned to detonate this was called a “Plutonium Rod”.
- The age of the nuclear scientist Dr. Mikhail Arkov (Jeff Nuttall who James Bond impersonates was sixty three.
- This was the first film to feature the newly constructed Millennium Dome, built for London’s New Year’s celebration of 1999/2000.
- The total on-screen body count is around 60.
- The license plate number of James Bond’s BMW Z8 car was V354 FMP.
- Cameo: [Michael G. Wilson] a man at the Casino, who opens the door for Elektra and James Bond.
- In earlier versions of the script, Julietta – the Cigar Girl was known as Sashenka Firo whilst Dr. Molly Warmflash was called Doctor Greatrex.
- First James Bond film where a main villain is a woman.
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