“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

On this day in 1997, second unit director Vic Armstrong was filming the pre-credit sequence for TOMORROW NEVER DIES in the French Pyrenees. Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould said: “We blew up a missile launcher, a helicopter and a truck. A jeep went up in a big ball of flames.” | James Bond 007

41K views · 2.1K reactions | On this day in 1997, the TOMORROW NEVER DIES crew shot scenes with the remote control BMW 7 series. | James Bond 007 | Facebook

The HALO jump in TOMORROW NEVER DIES was a real stunt performed by professional skydiver B.J. Worth, who completed 80 jumps to capture the sequence. In the film, Bond (Pierce Brosnan) jumps from a C-130 cargo plane wearing an oxygen mask. The high-altitude, low-opening (HALO) technique means the parachute is deployed only at a low altitude after free falling from high up. | James Bond 007