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Tomorrow Never Dies

film by Spottiswoode [1997]

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Tomorrow Never Dies is a 1997 British spy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. It is the second of Brosnan's four films as Agent 007 and the eighteenth in the Eon Productions James Bond series.1

In the film, Bond races against time to stop media mogul Elliot Carver from igniting World War III to create a new world order, from which he can profit. Carver plans to use his global media network to manipulate world leaders and trigger a conflict between China and the United Kingdom, thereby gaining exclusive broadcasting rights in the region. Bond must infiltrate Carver's stealth ship and prevent the launch of a stolen GPS-guided missile that could start the war.1

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