Licence to Kill behind the scenes gags

Licence to Kill

The film originally hoped to be filmed in China, including car chasing scenes on the Great Wall and a scene in a museum exhibiting newly unearthed cultural relics. The Chinese government has put forward restrictions on the right to veto the script, and the production has no choice but to give up the restrictions on the script.
In order to change the film level from G to PG-13, some pictures must be cut. This film is the first 007 film higher than PG level.
The film is the first 007 movie whose title is not derived from the 007 novel written by Ian Fleming.
Car stunt director Remy Julian, who has designed stunt scenes in many 007 movies, and stuntman Ken Vos in "License to Kill" and stuntman Ken Vos made the difficult stunts of large tank trucks in the film, tank trucks. Not only to perform sideways, but also to complete acrobatics by driving only the rear wheels while the front wheels are in the air. The cooperation of specially modified vehicles and professional stunt staff made this lens successfully completed the shooting.
Producer Michael G. Wilsonvoiced an agent of the US DEA Drug Enforcement Agency in the film.
During the filming of the film, the veteran producer of the 007 series,fell ill on the set and later failed to return to the set.
In order to film the scene of the CIA agent's leg being bitten by a shark, the crew found a person who was missing a leg and fitted him with a prosthetic limb, and then asked the real shark to bite off his prosthetic limb. It was bloody and was abandoned by the director.
The 007 crew filmed on a mountain road in Mexico had encountered unexplainable spooky events. First, a self-made missile accidentally hit a worker who was repairing a telephone line two miles away after launching, and then stopped with proper oil. The tanker suddenly started to hit the mountain at night without driving. Other incidents of accidental rollovers and stunt staff injuries are endless. When shooting an explosion scene in which two cars collided, a "fireman" appeared in the photos taken by the staff, but the pictures taken by the four cameras that were shooting on the spot could not be found in the replay afterwards. To such a "fire hand" is really weird enough.
Transportation in the film includes: Kenworth W900B truck, Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II, Lincoln Continental Mark VII LSC, Maserati Biturbo, four-seater single-engine Cessna 172 "Air Eagle" And two-seater Cessna 150 aircraft, Piper PA-18-150 seaplane and Piper J-3 aircraft, Aerospatiale HH-65A "Dolphin" helicopter, electric golf cart, etc.
Screenwriter Richard, Robert Brownwho played M, and Caroline Bliss (Caroline Bliss) who played Penny appeared for the last time in the film.
The film was originally titled "Licence Revoked", but it may be confused with the 007 novel "Licence Renewed" published byin 1981, and according to investigations, nearly half of Americans do not know "Revoked" What does it mean, so the title was changed to "Licence to Kill".
Some plots in the film are derived from Ian Fleming's novel "Live and Let Die".
The wording of the title has also caused controversy. The British spelling "Licence" and the American spelling ""License" were developed. In the end, the former won.
The interval between the 007 film and the film in the lower part is as long as 6 years, mainly due to the copyright dispute of screenwriter Richard Maibaum and Timothy Dalton's decision not to play 007.
The film was the first 007 film that was not shot in the UK. Because of the high cost of shooting in the UK, it was shot in Mexico.
The first candidate to play Lupu is Maria Concorta Alonso.
John Rees-Davis refused to play a small role in the film.
The scene of 007's resignation from MI6 was filmed in Hemingway's residence, which is why when M notified 007 that his license to kill was withdrawn, 007 replied: "I guess this is a farewell to arms." This sentence is alluding to Hemingway's The famous book "".
Kelly Lowe later said in a TV interview that when shooting shots, she closed her eyes reflexively and retreated back. Although she practiced repeatedly later, she still couldn't restrain herself.
During the filming, Dario, played by Benicio del Toro, was supposed to cut the rope and put 007 down, but he cut Timothy Dalton's hand.
1989 coincided with the strike of the American Screenwriters Guild. As a member of the union, Richard McBaum had to stop writing the script for the film, and instead ghosted by Michael G. Wilson.