If you live in Dallas/Fort Worth area and consider yourself a James Bond fan, you may already know about the BONDTHOLOGY showings at the Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson, TX. If not, here’s the deal – every month (on the 7th) they’re showing (in order) the 007 films on the big screen, all leading up to the new Daniel Craig movie SPECTRE later this year – slight change starting this month, as now we’ll be presenting a 007 film on the 7th, the 17th, and the 27th of this month and next month. I took over hosting duties from our own Devin Pike with one of my personal favorites, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, back in March. This month we continue with the second Pierce Brosnan installment, one of the most sleek of the 007 films, TOMORROW NEVER DIES. It co-stars Jonathan Pryce, Teri Hatcher, Michelle Yeoh, Gotz Otto, Judi Dench as M, and the late and great Desmond Llewelyn as Q.

Released in 1997 and following the blockbuster debut of Pierce Brosnan as 007 in GOLDENEYE, this outing utilizes a media mogul as the villain, played gleefully by Jonathan Pryce, and pairs our hero with Bond girls played by Teri Hatcher and Michelle Yeoh. Highlights include a remote control car chase in which Bond steers from the backseat, a motorcycle chase, a daring jump and dangle from a skyscraper, and stealth boat shootouts. Some called it 007 by the numbers, but it’s a more polished entry for Pierce either way. It’s also features some of the most fun interaction between Bond and Q (the great Desmond Llewellyn), who shows up as a rental car clerk. As with most of the Brosnan films, this one makes heavy use of BMW vehicles, sporting a new BMW car and even a BMW motorcycle.

Please join us this Sunday at 7:00pm to see this gem on the big screen, there’s still good seats available as of this writing. Tickets are $7, and we may just give away some Bond items through trivia, so know your 007 and you might win something. Info on the show and ticket purchasing particulars can be found RIGHT HERE. Spread the word to like-minded friends, and hopefully we’ll see you this Sunday!

Roger Spottiswoode (Air America) directed this film, the 18th chapter in the 35-year-old James Bond series (excluding Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again). James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) learns billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) is manipulating world events via an exclusive flow of information through his satellite system reaching all corners of the planet. With a stealth battleship sinking a British naval vessel, Carver sees that the Chinese are blamed. Crashing Carver’s party in Hamburg, Bond meets “journalist” Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh), later revealed as a Chinese agent. In a brief tryst, Bond renews his past relationship with Carver’s wife Paris (Teri Hatcher). Carver dispatches Stamper (Gotz Otto) and other goons to cancel Bond, who eludes attackers with some of his new gadgets. In Southeast Asia, after Bond and Wai Lin scuba dive into the sunken British ship, they are captured by Stamper, handcuffed, and taken to Saigon where they make a motorcycle escape. To thwart Carver’s plans for WWIII, the two agents head for Carver’s stealth ship where a cruise missile is aimed at Beijing. Principal photography began April 1, 1997 in the new Eon Productions studio facility at Frogmore, northwest of London, and on the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios. Locations included the UK, Hamburg, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and off the Florida coast. The trademark Bond pre-title sequence was filmed in the French Pyrenees snowfields, centered around one of the few high-altitude operational airfields in Europe. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

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