Tim Dalton and Robert Davi showed incredible courage performing on those unforgiving trucks. I spent a week working with the second unit and the principal actors. Story boarding played a huge part in the planning and execution of this scene which was mainly a second unit operation. John Richardson quickly improvised a stabiliser for a standby truck but fortunately Remy’s man turned up at the last moment and achieved the wheelie in one take. Apparently the specialist met a girl on the plane and disappeared for several days. Remy Julienne, who I had first met on “The Italian Job” and had performed car stunts on all my films, had modifications made to certain vehicles that included beefed up engine power, weights added to the prime mover to allow it to do sit ups, wheelies and a dual controlled vehicle to allow Carey Lowell to appear to drive the truck.įor the 10-wheel wheelie for Bond to avoid the missile Remy sent for a specialist French stunt driver. We were fortunate that the Kenwood plant was situated in Mexicali, within half an hour of our location on the mountain at Rumarosa. We obtained 10 second hand Kenwood tanker trucks at a cost of almost £1,000,000. I had spent several months devising the truck sequence, the major action scene in the film.
Our first explosion at Churubusco Studios caused the roof panels to fall like leaves in autumn. Mexico City was recovering from a major earthquake, buildings were leaning crazily against each other. Little did we realise what a lawless and corrupt country it was at that time.
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"For financial reasons it was decided to film the entire movie in Mexico. Legendary Bond director John Glen remembers working on the film: 19 November 1988: Shooting was completed, marking Timothy Dalton’s final day as James Bond.10 November 1988: John Glen shot the scene in which Franz Sanchez interrogates a chained up Bond.19 October 1988: John Glen shot the scene in which Sanchez reveals his master plan.
10 October 1988: Wayne Newton shot his cameo as Joe Butcher.21 September 1988: Shooting began on casino scenes in Isthmus City Casino, Mexico.12 September 1988: John Glen shot the scene in which Leiter is attacked by a shark.9 September 1988: John Glen directed the scene where Sanchez explodes Krest in the decompression chamber.26 August 1988: Robert Brown & Caroline Bliss had their final day on the Bond series, as M & Moneypenny.23 August 1988: John Glen shot Bond’s first scene in the film, riding with Felix Leiter to Leiter’s wedding.19 August 1988: Shooting took place on the scenes of Bond & Leiter pursuing Franz Sanchez in a helicopter.4 August 1988: Desmond Llewelyn (Q) shot his part helping 007 sneak aboard the Wavecrest.27 July 1988: Shooting began on Bond and Pam Bouvier’s bar fight against Sanchez’s men.21 July 1988: John Glen directed the scene where Bond mistakenly attacks Q.19 July 1988: John Glen directed the scene where Bond discovers Felix Leiter (David Hedison) maimed by a shark.Production notes on Licence to Kill (Source: MGM / Eon Productions)
Posing as a gun-for-hire, Bond is employed by Sánchez, whereupon he sets about destroying the villain's drugs empire. Bond, ordered to leave the matter for the Americans to sort out, resigns his licence to kill and sets out on his own to settle the score personally against Sánchez. (LTK was first released in the UK on 13th June 1989, in Sweden on 7th July, and in USA on 14th July.)ĭrugs baron Franz Sánchez has Bond's DEA agent friend Felix Leiter widowed on his wedding night and fed to a shark. On this day in Bond history, 30 years ago, the film Licence to Kill premiered at cinemas.
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