“Next time I’ll take the elevator.” The leap down Carver’s HQ in TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997) was a stunt in two halves. Stunt performers Mark Southworth (doubling for 007) and Wendy Leech (Wai-Lin) jumped from the Sinn Sathorn Tower in Thailand. At Frogmore studios in the UK, Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Yeoh repelled down a five-story section — by moving the banner up the building, the actors looked like they moved down all 43 floors. | James Bond 007

007 commandeers a jet to escape the arms bazaar in the pre-credits sequence for TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997). This scene was filmed at Balcons de Peyresourde in the French Pyrenees. | James Bond 007

Shooting took place on TOMORROW NEVER DIES on this day in 1997 ahead of principal photography. Among the cast was a young Gerard Butler. | James Bond 007

“They’ll print anything these days...” Bond (Pierce Brosnan) tries to escape from Carver’s Hamburg HQ in TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997). The printing press fight sequence was actually filmed at Harmsworth Quays Printing in Rotherhithe, South London. | James Bond 007

On this day in 1997, TOMORROW NEVER DIES was released in the UK. In this famous sequence Bond (Pierce Brosnan) drives his BMW 750iL by remote control. The stunt was filmed at Brent Cross Shopping Centre and took three weeks to capture. | James Bond 007