She worked as a singer at her boyfriend Valentin Zukovsky 's club Valentin's , in St. She and a few other girls were onstage singing "Raining in Baltimore" by Counting Crows, but due to their having learned the song phonetically and knowing little to no English, it came out a laughable attempt, while Zukovsky's old rival James Bond arrived at the club. She continued her act until part way through the song "Memories" when Zukovsky told her to "take a hike" and she stamped off the stage swearing.

James Bond Wiki Explore. Hunt Tom Mankiewicz. Ken Adam Syd Cain. John Glen Peter R. Hunt Norman Wanstall. Albert R. Hunt Tom Mankiewicz Michael Kitchen. As part of the car's marketing strategy, several Z3s were used to drive journalists from a complimentary meal at the Rainbow Room restaurant, to the premiere at Radio City Music Hall.

A three-issue comic book adaptation of this movie by Topps Comics was planned to be released, but for unknown reasons, this comic book tie-in was cancelled after the first issue had been published, which carried a January cover date.

There was fan speculation that the main female antagonist, Xenia Onatopp, was named after Xena, the title protagonist of Xena: Warrior Princess , who started off as an antagonist, before turning into a protagonist.

However, that fan speculation was wrong. Production on this movie commenced on January 16, , and this movie was released on November 13, , and Xena: Warrior Princess premiered on American television on September 14, , and also had been in production the same time as this movie, and there were no connections between the two characters.

As a possible nod to a character he played over a decade earlier, actor Billy J. Mitchell Admiral Chuck Farrell is found in his room dead from a sexual encounter gone wrong with a smile on his face as a result. In the movie Top Secret, which Mitchell also had a minor role in, when his character is mentioned in a conversation, it was said he had been found dead in his room from a sexual encounter gone wrong due to a misuse of electricity. The conversation later states "Our surgeons did what they could, but it took two hours just to get the smile off his face.

Renny Harlin was offered to direct. As M is about to send James Bond on his GoldenEye mission, she tells him not to run off on a personal vendetta.

M refers to the events in Licence to Kill , in which, Bond went rogue and set out to get his revenge on drug lord Franz Sanchez, who tortured Felix Leiter and left him for dead, and murdering Leiter's bride Della Churchill. The plot of the villain using an electromagnetic pulse to destroy the computers of London, is the plot of the cartoon James Bond Jr. Jack Wade was named after screenwriter Kevin Wade , who wrote a draft.

Ute Lemper turned down the role of Xenia Onatopp. Angie Everhart auditioned for the role of Natalya Simonova. Before composer Eric Serra was hired, another composer almost got hired to write the score and that is composer Robert Folk, who is most know for scoring comedies such as Police Academy. The tank, complete with its number on the lamp covers, can also be seen in Red Dwarf: Beyond a Joke where it is driven by Kryten. Some references claim that Miss Moneypenny is Bond's passenger in the Aston Martin; but in fact this is Caroline, the young woman sent by M to evaluate him, played by Serena Gordon.

Natalya Simonova is unique within the Bond Leading Lady pantheon because she is introduced early in the story and survives numerous ordeals before she ever crosses paths with Bond.

She finally meets him just over an hour into the film. Director Martin Campbell overruled this choice. Production began filming on 16 January , exactly 33 years since the first day of filming in Jamaica for Dr.

No , on 16 January Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson had considered making Natayla Simonova a recurring Bond Girl where she would use her skills as a computer programmer to aid Bond on some of his missions. This was the second and last James Bond movie to be adapted as a novel by then-current Bond novelist John Gardner. The book was based upon the screenplay by Bruce Feirstein and Jeffrey Caine.

It followed the movie storyline fairly closely, however, Gardner maintained a rather violent sequence prior to the opening bungee jump, in which Bond wipes out a group of Russian guards cut from the movie, although the popular video game based on this movie also featured it. There is also a deleted scene that alludes to the part where Bond cuts off a wire so that the gate can open, so he can run through the dam. Differences from this movie: The book features and receiving their briefing from the previous M, Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, before the mission to the chemical weapons factory.

If this is counted as part of continuity, it would seem to confirm that the M, played by Robert Brown , is the same character played by Bernard Lee. Xenia drives a yellow Ferrari in Monte Carlo, not a red one. Chuck Farrell is an American, not a Canadian. He also holds the lower rank of Rear Admiral, rather than an Admiral, as in the film.

When breaking into his nightclub, Valentin Zukovsky observes Bond on security cameras, and was able to anticipate his arrival.

Dmitri Mishkin's first name is changed to Viktor. A scene was added between the escape from the train, and the trip to Cuba, where Bond and Natalya sleep overnight in a St. Petersburg motel, and are smuggled out of Russia the next day, by Jack Wade.

This added more mythos of the character in James Bond literary and movie aspects. It's also funny that this movie was the birth of James Bond books, a chance for the Bond movies to take a new direction, also Pierce Brosnan said to David Letterman that the first movie that he watched of James Bond, was Goldfinger , also Brosnan, when growing up in London, had the same acting teacher as Sir Sean Connery.

The small single-engine aircraft flown by James and Natalya tail number N is a Cessna P, with a Lycoming O series, one hundred eighty horsepower engine.

As of December , it was privately registered to an individual in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Before the title sequence where Bond bungee-jumps off the dam he attaches a climbing rope to his leg, not a bungee rope. This would stop his fall instantly, and possibly tear his leg off his body. Pierce had been in consideration for James Bond since Unfortunately she never got to see her husband playing the part.

She passed away in At one point, Courteney Cox was considered for the role of Xenia Onatopp, but she was turned down due to scheduling conflicts with Friends and Famke Janssen was cast instead. The opening line of Tina Turner's song has the word "reflections", coincidental that reflections is the word from the book that inspired Ian Fleming to build the estate in Jamaica, and his operations during his spy years the same name, the book's name is "Reflections in a Golden Eye", starring Marlon Brando in a movie adaptation, and the author is Carson McCullers.

Brosnan played the role three years later in The Quest for Camelot. That film also featured former Bond girl Jane Seymour. Brosnan and Connery have both appeared in films by Seymour's former father-in-law, Richard Attenborough. Forbes Collins made a cameo as guard, but his scene was deleted. Mishkin tells Bond that "Russia may have changed, but the penalty for terrorism is still death. Is this interesting? Sushmita Sen was offered this movie, but declined it for unknown reasons.

Michelle Arthur's debut. The only Pierce Brosnan James Bond film that wasn't released in the same year as an Austin Powers film; a franchise that largely spoofed Bond. Brosnan about twenty years after 'GoldenEye' co-starred with Owen Wilson in the action-thriller 'No Escape' whilst the movie that Campbell directed immediately prior to 'GoldenEye' was the sci-fi-action-adventure-drama-thriller 'No Escape' which is also known as 'Escape from Absolom' Martin Campbell : The director as one of the cyclists who get toppled over when James Bond and Xenia Onatopp race past them.

No and From Russia with Love Wayne Michaels : The stuntman as a Tiger helicopter pilot. Simon Crane : The stuntman as a Tiger helicopter pilot. Spoilers The trivia items below may give away important plot points. Famke Janssen broke a rib during the sauna fight scene, according to her interview for Everything or Nothing Before filming the sequence, Janssen encouraged Pierce Brosnan to run her into the wall as hard as he could, and actually insisted he do it, citing that the walls were padded.

Agent killed 47 people in this movie, making this the highest amount of people James Bond killed in a single movie. The villain, Alec Trevelyan, was named in tongue-in-cheek homage to John Trevelyan , who was the British movie censor during the sixties when the "golden age" of James Bond movies were made. Trevelyan took a dim view to Bond movies, particularly Bond's penchant for pun one-liner jokes after killing someone.

Indeed, Trevelyan felt so strongly about what he saw as "callous sadism" in Bond's character, he wrote about his antipathy towards the Bond franchise in his autobiography "What the Censor Saw".

To date, he is the only British movie censor in the BBFC's hundred year history to have written an autobiography.

He was head censor from to , retiring when he felt that movies were becoming too mindlessly violent. This, he felt, was due to the collapse of the production code in the U. Ironically, upon his retirement, he campaigned for an end for movie censorship for adults. Xenia's hand when James Bond arrives in the casino is two face cards and a seven, or Bond's final hand, when he plays with Xenia, is two face cards and a six, or Agent , Alec Trevelyan Sean Bean , was originally named "Augustus Trevelyan", and written as a much older character, and a former mentor of James Bond.

The producers were keen to hire Sir Anthony Hopkins for the part, but he turned it down. Alan Rickman also turned down the role, stating that he was tired of playing villains. Finally, Sean Bean was cast after the part was re-written, but elements of the original idea survive in the finished version, though, instead of the character remembering the s, his parents managed to escape execution, but committed suicide some time later, when Alec was a small child.

In the first draft of this movie, Xenia's preferred method of killing was the use of her hands to induce heart attacks instead of using her thighs to suffocate her victims. Miss Moneypenny commented: "Why James, she's just your type! This movie was released on the 50th anniversary of this incident. Alec Trevelyan's dark colored locomotive in the movie was nicknamed on the set as "Darth Train".

One of the theatrical trailers spoiled Alec Trevelyan being revealed as the villain. The pre-title sequence takes place 9 years before the main part of the film. This would make it Ironically, that was the year Pierce Brosnan was first offered the part of James Bond, but had to give it up when his the producers of Remington Steele decided to renew his contract.

In the narrative, M referred to the events of Licence to Kill , in which got his revenge upon drug lord Franz Sanchez for torturing Felix Leiter and murdering Leiter's bride, Della Churchill. The plot is similar to the novel "Moonraker", where a scarred villain plans to use a superweapon to destroy London in revenge for events in World War II.

Swedish pop music group Ace of Base was originally slated to perform the title theme song. They recorded the song, written by the band's own Jonas Berggren , but it was pulled out of the project by their record label at the time.

Ace of Base later re-wrote the lyrics to the song, renaming it "The Juvenile", and put it on their album, "Da Capo", released in Europe in late The song was released as a single off of that album in Germany, in December With the lyrics, the words 'The Juvenile" replaced "The Goldeneye", both having the same number of syllables, while the lyrics "Tomorrow's foe is now a friend" clearly refers to Alec Trevelyan. No In that first James Bond adventure, C.

Agent Felix Leiter and the Marines are too late to join the battle against the main villain, Dr. Wilson to be brought back for the Daniel Craig -era as a recurring antagonist. This is a reference to Bond's prior mission in Licence to Kill , because it's the same plane that Franz rode in the start of the movie. This was a really good Easter egg, as well as many others, such as M saying in the meeting, "Don't make Alec's death a personal vendetta", as well as the psychological evaluation with Carol.

So this means that Licence to Kill actually took place in the GoldenEye universe. This could have been an actual sequel to a movie with these many nods, also Bond says "predecessor to M" when getting cognac.

Butcher's job was to transmit coded messages from Sanchez to his international drug distributors. Las Vegas and Mr. Entertainer, and appeared in small parts in other movies including Vegas Vacation. Deborah Moore's cameo in Die Another Day is special not because she is an acclaimed actress but because her father, Roger Moore , was a former Bond himself.

Moore played the British special agent for 12 years with seven films to his credit. The younger Moore was seen in the role of an air hostess who gives Bond his "shaken not stirred" martini. Her guest appearance also made it to the adapted book version of the film.

Deckers' character is an employee of the wealthy media baron and criminal Elliot Carver. While at a party at Carver's Hamburg media center, Deckers' character introduces James Bond to her patron, as Bond poses as a banker to get into the inner circle.

Maud Adams has been a Bond girl in two films. But Adams also got a chance for a special appearance in the film, A View To Kill , in a cameo that was brief and sadly uncredited. Adams, who plays a woman in a crowd at the Fisherman's Wharf scene, had just dropped by on the set during the filming of the movie. She became an extra on a streetcar as James Bond enters the neighborhood.