Demain never dies ( Tomorrow Never Dies ), is a film putting in scene James Bond, carried out by Roger Spottiswoode, left in 1997.

Synopsis

A British military ship is touched by a Torpille whereas it sails in territorial water skirting China. The the United Kingdom shows the China and sets in motion its navy to oblige the Chinese to repair the wrongs caused by their aggression.

On its side, MI6 informs James Bond of certain details which make doubt culpability of China, and incites it to be interested in Elliot Carver, a directing Mégalomane of a media empire Carver Médias Groups Network (C.M.G.N.) whose figurehead is the daily newspaper The Tomorrow . With the wire of its investigation, Bond confirms the suspicions of the MI6, and finds the reasons which encourage Carver to cause a conflict between the Chinese and the British.

Carver hopes, after an important war which will have seen a change of government in China, to obtain the exclusiveness in the Chinese waves during the fifty next years. Jump, helped by charming a agente Chinese, will have to put an end to the intrigues of Carver, if not the conflict will be the spark which will start a Third World war.

Data sheet

• Title: Demain never dies
• original Titer: Tomorrow Never Dies
• Realization: Roger Spottiswoode
• Production: Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson
• Scenario: Bruce Feirstein
• Decorations: Allan Cameron
• Photography: Robert Elswit
• Music: David Arnold, song of the credits interpreted by Sheryl Crow
• According to the characters imagined by Ian Fleming

Distribution

• Pierce Brosnan: James Bond
• Michelle Yeoh: Wai Flax
• Jonathan Pryce: Elliot Carver
• Teri Hatcher : Paris Carver
• Judi Dench: M
• Desmond Llewelyn: Q
• Samantha Jump: Miss Moneypenny
• Joe Gift Baker: Jack Wade
• Vincent Schiavelli: Dr. Kaufman

Places of the action

• Black-market of weapons, southern border of the Russia
• Hamburg, Germany
• China Sea
• Saigon, Vietnam

Around film

• the title of film was in the beginning Tomorrow Never Lies (“Tomorrow never lies”) in reference to the newspaper of Elliot Carver. A typing error transformed it into Tomorrow Never Dies ( Demain never dies ) which rained with the producers.
• Teri Hatcher accepted the role to carry out the phantasm of her husband to be married with a James Bond girl.
• Michelle Yeoh, which interprets James Bond Girl Wai Lin, control so well martial arts which it turned itself the majority of the scenes of combat.
• When Gubta spy the conversation of Paris saying “ Tell me James, you always sleep with a weapon under your thwart ?” one can see the program Avid which is not used for espionner but is used nevertheless for the video assembly.

External bond

• Card IMDb