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007 Vehicle: Maserati Biturbo 425 / Licence to Kill (1989)

Bond vehicle: Maserati Biturbo 425

Bond movie: Licence to Kill (1989)

Engine: 2,5 l V6 cylinder motor with two turbochargers
Top speed: 217 km/h
Acceleration 0-100 km/h: 6,5 seconds
Length: 4400 mm
Width: 1730 mm
Weight: 1180 kg
Price 1988 / 2008: £ 23 795 / £ 4500

Drug baron Franz Sanchez lives glorious life in his Isthmus City base surrounded by luxury, like Maserati Biturbo 425.

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

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Bond villain: Franz Sanchez

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Bond villain: Franz Sanchez

007 Film: Licence to Kill (1989)
Actor: Robert Davi

Mission:
Create an international drug cartel from South America to Asia, smuggling cocaine in gasoline.

Fate of the Bond villain:
Gasoline-soaked body set aflame and then Sanchez is blown up in truck explosion thanks to Bond.

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007 Travelers met Robert Davi, see the report

Tom Pevsner has passed away

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2nd October 1926 - 19th August 2014

Bond credits:

"For Your Eyes Only" (1981) - Associate Producer
"Octopussy" (1983) - Associate Producer
"A View to a Kill" (1985) - Associate Producer
"The Living Daylights" (1987) - Associate Producer
"Licence to Kill" (1989) - Associate Producer
"GoldenEye" (1995) - Executive Producer

007 Video game: Licence to Kill (1989)

007 VIDEO GAME TITLE: Licence to Kill

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1989

DEVELOPER: Quixel

PLATFORM(S): DOS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum

BOND LIKENESS: Timothy Dalton

ABOUT

Licence to Kill´s storyline closely follows that of the film, and consists of six scenes in which James Bond chases Franz Sanchez, who has murdered Felix Leiter's bride Della Churchill. The scenes within the game vary, and include helicopters, on foot, mid-air, underwater, water-skis and behind the wheels of a tanker truck.

NES VERSION

The game was also developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Tengen, but was unreleased as Domark felt that too much time had passed since the film's release.

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007 Soundtrack: Licence to Kill (1989)

FILM: Licence to Kill (1989)

SOUNDTRACK RELEASED: 1989

SCORE COMPOSER: Michael Kamen

TITLE SONG: "Licence to Kill"
COMPOSED BY: Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen, Walter Afanasieff

PERFORMED BY: Gladys Knight

The soundtrack to Licence to Kill, the 16th James Bond film of the same name, was released by MCA Records in 1989.

Because the usual James Bond composer John Barry (who had scored almost every film from From Russia with Love onwards) was not available at the time as he was undergoing throat surgery, the soundtrack's more upbeat and suspenseful score was composed and conducted by Michael Kamen.

Initially Eric Clapton and Vic Flick were asked to write and perform the theme song to Licence to Kill. The theme was said to have been a new version based on the James Bond Theme. The guitar riff heard in the original recording of the theme was played by Flick.

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TRACK LISTING

"Licence to Kill" – Gladys Knight

"Wedding Party" – Ivory

"Dirty Love" – Tim Feehan

"Pam"

"If You Asked Me To" – Patti LaBelle

"James & Felix on Their Way to Church"

"His Funny Valentine"

"Sanchez Is in the Bahamas/Shark Fishing"

"Ninja"

"Licence Revoked"

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007 Book: Licence to Kill (1989)

Bond book: Licence to Kill

Author: John Gardner

Publication year: 1989

Licence to Kill is the novelisation by John Gardner based on the film with the same name.

Licence to Kill was the first James Bond film since Moonraker to be novelised. Then-current Bond novelist John Gardner was commissioned to write the novel based upon the screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson. Gardner was faced with a challenge because his books maintain the continuity of Ian Fleming's original novels (albeit updated), and, in Fleming's and Gardner's continuity, Felix Leiter lost his leg in a shark attack in Live and Let Die. As a result, Gardner's book requires readers to suspend disbelief as James Bond comes to terms with his friend being maimed twice using the same method - complete with the same note ("He disagreed with something that ate him"). Gardner does not attempt to reconcile the return of Milton Krest, who, supposedly, was killed in Fleming's short story "The Hildebrand Rarity".

The novelisation takes place outside the timeline of Gardner's other Bond novels, as his next book, Brokenclaw, disregards the events of Licence to Kill. It also appears that the novelisation takes place sometime prior to Gardner's novel Win, Lose or Die in which Bond is promoted to Captain (in the novelization, as in the movie, Bond is still a Commander).

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007 Director: John Glen

Who: John Glen

Born: 15 May 1932, Sunbury-on-Thames, England

John Glen is an English film director, film editor, and author. He is best known for his directorial and editing work on eight James Bond films from the 1960s to the 1980s.

John Glen´s 007 production:

Director:
"For Your Eyes Only" (1981)
"Octopussy" (1983)
"A View to a Kill" (1985)
"The Living Daylights" (1987)
"Licence to Kill" (1989)

Editor and Second unit director:
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969)
"The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)
"Moonraker" (1979)

Other:
In 2001, John Glen published his memoir, "For My Eyes Only".

James Bond: 1969, 1977-89
During the 1960s and 1970s, Glen served as a film editor and second unit director, working on such films as "Superman" (1978) and "The Wild Geese" (1978); he also contributed to three James Bond films: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) and "Moonraker" (1979). Following the release of Moonraker, Glen was promoted to the rank of official director of the series; he went on to direct all five Bond films of the 1980s. He holds the record for directing the highest number of films in the series to date, just one film more than Guy Hamilton.

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007 Film: Licence to Kill (1989)

007 Film: Licence to Kill

Release year: 1989

Directed by: John Glen

Produced by: Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson

The story has elements of two Ian Fleming short stories and a novel, interwoven with aspects from Japanese Rōnin tales. The film sees Bond being suspended from MI6 as he pursues drugs lord Franz Sanchez, who has attacked his CIA friend Felix Leiter and murdered Felix's wife during their honeymoon. Originally titled Licence Revoked in line with the plot, the name was changed during post-production.

CAST:

Timothy Dalton as James Bond, an MI6 agent who resigns to take his revenge on drug lord Franz Sanchez
Carey Lowell as Pam Bouvier, an ex-Army pilot and CIA informant
Robert Davi as Franz Sanchez, the most powerful drug lord in Latin America, mentioned as having been wanted by the DEA for years.
Talisa Soto as Lupe Lamora, Sanchez's girlfriend who has romantic feelings for Bond
Anthony Zerbe as Milton Krest, Sanchez's henchman who operates Wavekrest Marine Research, and whom Bond sets up in order to turn Sanchez against him
Frank McRae as Sharkey, a friend of Felix Leiter who owns a boat charter business
Everett McGill as Ed Killifer, a corrupt DEA official who frees Sanchez from custody
Wayne Newton as Professor Joe Butcher, Sanchez's middleman and TV evangelist for Olimpatec Meditation Institute
Benicio del Toro as Dario, Sanchez's personal henchman
Anthony Starke as Truman-Lodge, Sanchez's financial advisor
Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. as President Hector Lopez, the president of Isthmus
Desmond Llewelyn as Q, Bond's ally who supplies Bond with various gadgets and helps him on the field
David Hedison as Felix Leiter, a former CIA agent now with DEA and a close friend of James Bond
Priscilla Barnes as Della Churchill, Felix Leiter's bride
Robert Brown as M, the head of MI6
Caroline Bliss as Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary
Don Stroud as Colonel Heller, Sanchez's head of security
Grand L. Bush as Hawkins, a DEA Agent who opposes Bond's vendetta
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Kwang, a Hong Kong Police Narcotics agent sent to infiltrate Sanchez's heart of operations
Christopher Neame as Fallon, an MI6 agent sent by M to arrest Bond, dead or alive
Diana Lee Hsu as Loti, a female Hong Kong Narcotics agent working with Kwang

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007 James Bond actor: Timothy Dalton

Who: Timothy Peter Dalton

Born: 21 March 1944 or 1946, Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales, UK

Timothy Peter Dalton is a British actor of film and television. Dalton is known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), as well as Rhett Butler in the television miniseries Scarlett (1994), an original sequel to Gone with the Wind.

Timothy Dalton trivia facts:

His Bond character was the last one to smoke cigarettes, though they have continued to drink martinis.

Dalton is a Manchester City F.C. supporter, and is often seen at the City of Manchester Stadium to watch his team play.

His favourite favourite Bond movie is Dr.No (1962).

Timothy Dalton´s 007 production:

The Living Daylights (1987)

Licence to Kill (1989)

James Bond: 1987-1994
Dalton had been considered for the role of James Bond several times. According to the documentary Inside The Living Daylights, the producers first approached Dalton in 1968 for On Her Majesty's Secret Service although Dalton himself in this same documentary claims the approach occurred when he was either 24 or 25 and had already done the film Mary, Queen of Scots (1971). Dalton told the producers that he was too young for the role. In a 1987 interview, Dalton said, "Originally I did not want to take over from Sean Connery. He was far too good, he was wonderful. I was about 24 or 25, which is too young. But when you've seen Bond from the beginning, you don't take over from Sean Connery." In either 1979 or 1980, he was approached again, but did not favour the direction the films were taking, nor did he think the producers were seriously looking for a new 007. As he explained, his idea of Bond was different. In a 1979 episode of the television series Charlie's Angels, Dalton played the role of Damien Roth, a millionaire playboy described by David Doyle's character as "almost James Bond-ian".

In 1986, Dalton was approached to play Bond after Roger Moore had retired, and Pierce Brosnan could not get out of contractual commitments to the television series Remington Steele. However, Dalton would soon begin filming Brenda Starr and could do The Living Daylights only if the Bond producers waited six weeks.

Dalton's first appearance as 007, The Living Daylights (1987) was critically successful, and grossed more than the previous two Bond films with Moore, as well as contemporary box-office rivals such as Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. However, his second film, Licence to Kill (1989), although almost as successful as its predecessor in most markets, did not perform as well at the U.S. box office, in large part due to a lacklustre marketing campaign, after the title of the film was abruptly changed from Licence Revoked. The main factor for the lack of success in the U.S. was that it was released at the same time as the hugely successful Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Tim Burton's Batman, and Lethal Weapon 2, during the summer blockbuster season. In the United Kingdom - one of its critical markets, the film was also hampered by receiving a 15 certificate from the British Board of Film Classification which severely affected its commercial success. Future Bond films, following the resolution of legal and other issues, were all released between 31 October and mid-December, in order to avoid the risk of a summer failure, as had happened to Licence To Kill.

With a worldwide gross of $191 million, The Living Daylights became the fourth most successful Bond film at the time of its release. In 1998 the second Deluxe Edition of Bond's Soundtracks was released. The Living Daylights was one of the first soundtracks to receive Deluxe treatment. The booklet/poster of this CD contains MGM's quote about The Living Daylights being the fourth most successful Bond film.

Since Dalton was contracted for three Bond films, the pre-production of his third film began in 1990, in order to be released in 1991. What was confirmed is that the story would deal with the destruction of a chemical weapons laboratory in Scotland, and the events would take place in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. However, the film was cancelled due to legal issues between UA/MGM and Eon Productions, which lasted for four years.

The legal battle ended in 1993, and Dalton was expected to return as James Bond in the next Bond film, which later became GoldenEye. Despite his contract having expired, negotiations with him to renew it took place. In an interview with the Daily Mail in August 1993, Dalton indicated that Michael France was writing the screenplay for the new film, and the production was to begin in January or February 1994. When the deadline was not met, Dalton surprised everyone on 12 April 1994 with the announcement that he would not return as James Bond. At this time, he was shooting the mini-series Scarlett. The announcement for the new Bond came two months later, with Pierce Brosnan playing the role. Dalton reflected in 2007, "I was supposed to make one more but it was cancelled because MGM and the film's producers got into a lawsuit which lasted for five years. After that, I didn't want to do it any more."

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007 Vehicle: Maserati Biturbo 425 / Licence to Kill (1989)

Bond villain: Franz Sanchez

Tom Pevsner has passed away

007 Video game: Licence to Kill (1989)

007 Soundtrack: Licence to Kill (1989)

007 Book: Licence to Kill (1989)

007 Director: John Glen

007 Film: Licence to Kill (1989)

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007 James Bond actor: Timothy Dalton

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