Date of Release World Premiere 8th November 1999, Bruin & Fox Theatres, Los Angeles, USA.
Running Time 126 minutes
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond
Plot
Her mind twisted to the border of insanity by the combination of her brutal kidnap by Renard, a notorious global anarchist, and the discovery that her father allowed the British Secret Service to use her as ‘bait’ to apprehend her captor, Elektra King plans to destroy Istanbul by exploding a nuclear submarine in the Bosphorus, which will force the world to use the oil from the King pipeline.
Bond’s Women
- Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards)
- Dr. Molly Warmflash (Serena Scott Thomas)
Bond’s Enemies
- Victor Sokas aka Renard (Robert Carlyle)
- Elektra King (Sophie Marceau)
- Mr. Lachaise (Patrick Malahide)
- Cigar Girl (Maria Grazia Cucinotta)
- Sasha Davidov (Ulrich Thomsen)
- The Bull/Mr. Bullion (Goldie)
- Gabor (John Seru)
Bond’s Allies
- Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane)
- Sir Robert King (David Calder)
- Bill Tanner (Michael Kitchen)
- Charles Robinson (Colin Salmon)
- ‘R’ (John Cleese)
- ‘M’ (Judi Dench)
- Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond)
- ‘Q’ (Desmond Llewelyn)
Bond’s Car BMW Z8
Bond’s Gadget Jet powered ‘Q’ Boat
Main Title Music The World Is Not Enough’ performed by Garbage
End Title Music ‘The James Bond Theme’
Music Score David Arnold
Production Design Peter Lamont
Main Titles Designer Daniel Kleinman
Screenplay Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Bruce Feirstein
Editor Jim Clark
Director of Photography Adrian Biddle
Director Michael Apted
Producers Michael G. Wilson & Barbara Broccoli
Filming Locations
- Pinewood Studios, London, England, UK
- Millennium Dome, London, England, UK
- Thames River, London, England, UK
- Wapping, London, England, UK
- Baku, Azerbaijan (city scenes)
- Bardenas Reales, Navarra, Spain
- Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain
- Chamonix, France
- Cwm Dyli pipeline, Snowdon, Gwynedd, Wales, UK (Brief shot of pipeline)
- Hankley Common, Elstead, Surrey, England, UK (Action sequences including pipeline explosion)
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland, UK
- Motorola Plant, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK (Oil Refinary)
- Stowe School, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- The World Naval base, Chatham, Kent, England, UK
Worldwide Box Office $352 million
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm
Cinematographic process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed film format 35 mm
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1