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"The World Is Not Enough" - the latest Bond movie |
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(Press release by BMW AG)
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He joins forces with nuclear weapons specialist Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards) and meets up again with Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane), who offers him assistance in the final confrontation with Renard. After a spectacular series of events when Valentin�s caviar factory on the City of Walkways in Baku is destroyed and Bond saves his life, they follow Renard to Istanbul for the final confrontation in the claustrophobic confines of a nuclear submarine beneath the surface of the Bosphorus.
The Participants
Directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Neil Purvis & Robert Wade and Dana Stevens and Bruce Feirstein, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH will shoot on location around the world, including London, Turkey, Spain and the French Alps. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH opens on November 19, 1999. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH is produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, who carry on the family tradition founded by the late Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, who 37 years ago began the successful series with the groundbreaking "Dr. No". Michael Wilson says: "I am convinced that the tremendous success of the James Bond series is directly attributed to the quality that the pictures have been able to maintain. Cubby Broccoli always insisted on the films having high production value, which is no doubt why they continue to be successful. Barbara and I will continue to produce the Bond films in the same way and, hopefully, repeat the success of GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies as the series continues." In addition to the box-office hits Tomorrow Never Dies and GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan will soon be seen opposite Rene Russo in United Artists� forthcoming romantic thriller The Thomas Crown Affair as well as The Nephew, both of which he also produced. He will also be seen in Richard Attenborough�s Grey Owl. As well as her critically acclaimed role as Princess Isabelle in Braveheart, Sophie Marceau most recently starred in the title role of Leo Tolstoy�s Anna Karenina. The star of numerous European films, her recent credits include Michelangelo Antonioni�s Beyond the Clouds, the romantic drama Firelight, the forthcoming adaptation of Shakespeare�s A Midsummer Night�s Dream and the comedy Lost and Found. Robert Carlyle is perhaps best known for his highly lauded performance in The Full Monty, which garnered him the British Academy award for best leading actor, among other awards. His credits also include Trainspotting and the films Ravenous, directed by Antonia Bird, and Angela�s Ashes, directed by Alan Parker. Denise Richards most recently starred as the devious Kelly Van Ryan in Wild Things and as Pilot Carmen Ibanez in Paul Verhoeven�s Starship Troopers. Richards made her debut on ABC-TV�s Doogie Howser, M.D. Her television credits also include three episodes of Melrose Place. She will next be seen in Dairy Queens and Taillights Fade. Director Michael Apted has helmed such acclaimed and successful films as Extreme Measures, starring Hugh Grant, Nell starring Jodie Foster, Blink starring Madeleine Stowe, Thunderheart, Gorillas in the Mist, Gorky Park and Coal Miner�s Daughter. He also created the award-winning documentaries which followed the lives of a group of children, beginning with Seven Up and revisiting the same individuals five more times, culminating in 1998�s Forty Two Up. Among Apted�s additional documentary credits is the highly acclaimed film about rock star Sting entitled Bring On The Night. With Bond I�m inheriting a very successful franchise, says director Apted. Successful because it works but we have to decide which elements to keep and what to change, just a little, so the film is fresh and modern. This Bond has a very topical narrative, on the cutting edge of the news. It�s still escapism - Bond with all the trappings, but it�s an interesting dynamic to have the Bond atmosphere, the Bond ethic, in a contemporary story. the British thriller Let Him Have It. Dana Stevens� credits include Blink, directed by Michael Apted, as well as City of Angels, directed by Brad Silberling and the forthcoming For the Love Of The Game, starring Kevin Costner. Bruce Feirstein previously penned the Bond films Tomorrow Never Dies and GoldenEye, which he co-wrote. Michael G. Wilson produced the highly successful films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies, along with Barbara Broccoli. Wilson previously co-produced with his stepfather, the late Albert R. Broccoli, the Bond films A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. He executive produced a number of Bond films, including Moonraker and co-wrote For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. Barbara Broccoli was an assistant director on Octopussy and A View To A Kill and was an associate producer on The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. She produced GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies with Michael G. Wilson and continues in this capacity with the latest 007 adventure. Broccoli is also the head of development for Danjaq, LLC. Through her own independent production company, Astoria Productions, she recently produced (with Amanda Schiff) the Golden Globe Award-nominated telefilm Crime of the Century for HBO, starring Stephen Rea and Isabella Rossellini.
The Locations
TURKEY: Establishing scenes were filmed in Istanbul with special attention to the famous Maiden�s Tower, situated on a small island in the middle of the Bosphorus. AZERBAIJAN: The capital city of Baku, a large oil centre, is in a very strategic military position. During World War II, Hitler was convinced that if Germany could take Baku then they could win the war. All the oil wells, which supplied the whole of the Soviet Union, are situated off the coast of the Caspian Sea with long causeways stretching as far as 50 kilometres out to sea. Several important action sequences are shot in Baku, including the destruction of Valentin�s caviar factory - accessible only by a network of raised walkways and platforms constructed above the waters of the Caspian Sea. FRANCE: In the French Alps, Bond and Elektra test each other on the snowy slopes before they are attacked by heavily armed men on flying skis and are then trapped by an avalanche. SPAIN: The dramatic, action-packed opening scenes of the pre-title sequence take place in the penthouse office of a Swiss bank situated on the banks of the Nervion River in Bilbao, overlooking the new Guggenheim Art Gallery. The Bardenas Reales, near Tudela, was the setting for sequences above the underground nuclear test facility, supposedly in Kazakhstan, and the vast construction site and pipeline in the shadow of the Caucasus Mountains were filmed in Los Callejones, Las Majadas, near Cuenca. UK: A spectacular high-speed boat chase up the River Thames in London terminating at the Millennium Dome, marks the exciting climax to a dramatic pre-title sequence. Eilean Donan Castle in Ross-shire, Scotland, becomes Castle Thane, the remote MI-6 Operations Centre.
THE CAST
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