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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.
 






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007 Vehicle: Wales and Edwards Rangemaster Milk Float / The Living Daylights (1987)

Bond vehicle: Wales and Edwards Rangemaster Milk Float
Bond movie: The Living Daylights (1987)

When infiltrating an MI6 safe house, Necros uses an innocent-looking milk float to make it look like he is just delivering milk and get past security before he "kidnaps" Koskov. Necros cunningly masterminds the infiltration of the Blayden safe house and the recovery of Koskov by utilizing his gift for disguises and mimicry.

Engine: 30-60 Volt electric battery
Top speed: 14 mph
Acceleration 0-100 km/h: n/a
Power: n/a
Transmission: duplex chain drive
Suspension: Front: Coil springs and two Aeon rubber auxiliary springs; Rear: Semi-elliptic dual rate leaf springs
Brakes: Front: mechanical; Rear: hydraulic
Length: 4780 mm 
Width: 1670 mm
Weight: 3400 kg
Price 1987 / 2012: n/a / £ 3000 (approx)






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007 Vehicle: Land Rover Series III / The Living Daylights (1987)


Bond vehicle: Land Rover Series III
Bond movie: The Living Daylights (1987)


Engine: 2286 cm3, 4 cylinders
Top speed: 109 km/h
Acceleration 0-100 km/h: 29,1 seconds
Length: 3264 mm 
Width: 1676 mm
Weight: 1380 kg
Price 1972 / 2008: £ 1002 / £ 3500 (completely restored specimen)

After shooting a British soldier, a Russian assassin drives Land Rover and tries to escape in Gibraltar's narrow and curly mountain roads.

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007 Vehicle: Lada 1500 / The Living Daylights (1987)

Bond vehicle: Lada 1500
Bond movie: The Living Daylights (1987)

When Bond and Kara Milovy are escaping icy roads and frozen lake in Czechoslovakia, Czech police chases them driving Ladas from Soviet times.

Engine: 1452 cm3, 8 valves total, 2 valves per cylinder
Top speed: 150 km/h
Acceleration 0-100 km/h: 14,5 seconds
Length: 4120 mm 
Width: 1618 mm
Weight: 1060 kg
Price 1987 / 2008: £ approx. 3000 / £ 50





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007 Vehicle: Aston Martin V8 Vantage / The Living Daylights (1987)

Bond vehicle: Aston Martin V8 Vantage
Bond movie: The Living Daylights (1987)

New Bond required a new car. In the movie "The Living Daylights" our agent went back to his roots - to Aston Martin.

Engine: 5340 cm3 V8 with twin cam-shafts
Top speed: 272 km/h
Acceleration 0-100 km/h: 5,3 seconds
Length: 4669 mm 
Width: 1829 mm
Weight: 1724 kg
Price 1987 / 2007: £ 75 000 / £ 77 000 




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007 Video game: The Duel (1993)

007 VIDEO GAME TITLE: The Duel
YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1993
DEVELOPER: Domark
PLATFORM(S): Sega Genesis, Sega Master System
BOND LIKENESS: Timothy Dalton

ABOUT

In The Duel mission Bond must rescue the hostages and destroy the mad Professor's establishment, including the space shuttle launch centre, be locating and planting bombs in strategic positions. Q has managed to plant special weapons (Q Cases) in various locations on the island, but Bond will need all his skills to succeed this time.

Armed with a pistol, the player controls James Bond through various side-scrolling enemy bases to rescue female hostages and arm a bomb placed at a strategic point to destroy the base. Along the way, Bond must battle numerous thugs and familiar bosses.


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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 Video game: The Living Daylights (1987)

007 VIDEO GAME TITLE: The Living Daylights
YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1987
DEVELOPER: Melbourne House
PLATFORM(S): Commodore 64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC and the BBC Micro
BOND LIKENESS: Timothy Dalton

ABOUT

The Living Daylights was a straightforward platform shooter game in which the player navigates James Bond through horizontally scrolling levels and shoots various bad guys.


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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
  1. "Licence to Kill" – Gladys Knight
  2. "Wedding Party" – Ivory
  3. "Dirty Love" – Tim Feehan
  4. "Pam"
  5. "If You Asked Me To" – Patti LaBelle
  6. "James & Felix on Their Way to Church"
  7. "His Funny Valentine"
  8. "Sanchez Is in the Bahamas/Shark Fishing"
  9. "Ninja"
  10. "Licence Revoked"

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007 Soundtrack: The Living Daylights (1987)

FILM: The Living Daylights(1987)
SOUNDTRACK RELEASED: 1987
SCORE COMPOSER: John Barry
TITLE SONG: "The Living Daylights"
COMPOSED BY: John Barry, Pål Waaktaar
PERFORMED BY: A-ha
 
The Living Daylights is the soundtrack title for the film The Living Daylights and the eleventh and final Bond soundtrack to be scored by composer John Barry. The soundtrack is notable for its introduction of sequenced electronic rhythm tracks overdubbed with the orchestra – at the time, a relatively new innovation.
 
The title song of the film, The Living Daylights, was recorded by pop group a-ha. a-ha and Barry did not collaborate well, resulting in two versions of the theme song. Barry's film mix is heard on the soundtrack and all three of a-ha's best-of compilations. The a-ha preferred mix can be heard on their 1988 album Stay on These Roads. However in 2006 a-ha's Paul Waaktaar-Savoy complimented Barry's contributions "I loved the stuff he added to the track, I mean it gave it this really cool string arrangement. That's when for me it started to sound like a Bond thing". The title song is one of very few 007 title songs that is not performed or written by a British or American performer in the history of the series.
 
Originally, British pop band Pet Shop Boys was asked to compose the soundtrack, but backed down when they learned that they should not provide a complete soundtrack but merely the opening theme song.

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TRACK LISTING

  1. "The Living Daylights" – A-ha
  2. "Necros Attacks"
  3. "The Sniper Was a Woman"
  4. "Ice Chase"
  5. "Kara Meets Bond"
  6. "Koskov Escapes"
  7. "Where Has Everybody Gone" – The Pretenders
  8. "Into Vienna"
  9. "Hercules Takes Off"
  10. "Mujahadin and Opium"
  11. "Inflight Fight"
  12. "If There Was a Man" – The Pretenders
  13. "Exercise at Gibraltar"
  14. "Approaching Kara"
  15. "Murder at the Fair"
  16. ""Assassin" and Drugged"
  17. "Airbase Jailbreak"
  18. "Afghanistan Plan"
  19. "Air Bond"
  20. "Final Confrontation"
  21. "Alternate End Titles"

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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 Film: The Living Daylights (1987)

    007 Film: The Living Daylights
    Release year: 1987
    Directed by: John Glen
    Produced by: Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson

    The beginning of the film resembles the short story, in which Bond acts as a counter-sniper to protect a Soviet defector, Georgi Koskov. He tells Bond that General Pushkin, head of the KGB, is systematically killing British and American agents. When Koskov is seemingly snatched back, Bond follows him across Europe, Morocco and Afghanistan.


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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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