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- Before the Aston Martin was written into the script,Bond and Kara were supposed to escape from Czechoslovakia on an Ice Yacht.
- Originally Saunders was supposed to be split in half by the door that killed him.
- The Gibralter where the pre-title chase scene is held, is considered so dangerous that a special test must be passed to drive on it.
- Brad Whitaker's head quarters was filmed at Malcom Forbes mansion.
- The casting of Frederick Warder and Glyn Baker as 004 and 002 at the beginning of the movie was intentional. One bears a resemblence to Roger Moore, the other is a near-lookalike for George Lazenby. The writers wanted to toy with the audience's expectations of which of the 00 agents was Bond.
- The umbrellas that James Bond's jeep smashes through during the opening sequence have the initials "JB" printed on them.
- Timothy Dalton's first appearance as James Bond. Pierce Brosnan was the hot favorite to replace Roger Moore but was ruled out because of his contractual obligations to "Remington Steele" (1982). Other actors considered included 'Sam Neill' (qv) and Finlay Light.
- n the opening scene at Gibraltar, real military installations were used. These included a Ministry of Defence road not open to the public. The machine gun nest on the airstrip was not authentic..
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