Tomorrow Never Dies

:For the video game see Tomorrow Never Dies (video game)

Trivia

• It has been suggested that the character of Elliot Carver is (very loosely) based on a combination of Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation exerts power across many continents, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
• When filming began the script wasn't finished.
• The film was originally titled Tomorrow Never Lies, a reference to Elliott Carver's newspaper Tomorrow. However, it was then the subject of a typo and the producers liked the alternate title so much they adopted it.http://commanderbond.net/Public/Stories/2866-1.shtml
• This was the final Bond film-to-date to be released directly through United Artists; parent company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would assume co-production and distribution beginning with the next film.
• Teri Hatcher's scenes had to be filmed quickly because she found out she was pregnant a few days after she got the part.
• A March 10, 1997 report in the New York Daily News on the production of the as-yet untitled film (then being referred to as Bond 18) indicated that several titles were being considered for the film, including: Shamelady, Avatar, Shatterhand, Zero Windchill and the title considered most likely — Tomorrow Never Dies.http://commanderbond.net/Public/Stories/2866-1.shtml The rumored title Shatterhand is interesting as this is the alias used by Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Ian Fleming's original novel of You Only Live Twice which, like Tomorrow Never Dies, also has strong Oriental ties.
• Teri Hatcher accepted the role of Paris Carver to fulfill her husband's dream of being married to a Bond girl.
• Several inconsistencies exist in the representation of the Royal Navy. Type 23 frigates do not carry land attack missiles as depicted in the first moments of the film; the weapon system fired is actually a Harpoon anti-shipping missile. The encounter with the stealth ship is also of poetic licence, in the real world an Aircraft Carrier and destroyers would also have been present, and a wealth of options to engage the stealth ship would have been open to the naval commander. (This stems from only one ship model being built for the movie to save costs and time.) Rather than shelling the stealth ship, he could have also used a helicopter or torpedo attack, both systems being carried by Type 23 frigates.