DAD footage shown down under

21-Aug-2002 • Die Another Day

Dark Horizons have reported that ten minutes worth of footage from Die Another Day was shown at the Australian International Movie Convention:

The clip started off with Bond and a fellow agent (Colin Salmon) in an office hallway sneaking down and taking out armed guys in black outfits who seem to be conducting a raid. Bond steps into an office and there`s M held at gunpoint in front of one of the men. Bond takes a few steps forward, pauses and then fires (cut to black). Lots of stuff is seen - Rick Yune appears in many scenes with a bald head, pale eyes and these wierd silver metallic stretch mark style rivulets down half his face. M comments to Bond welcoming him `back` as such from what sounds like a retirement, there`s the ice car chase which looks spectacular, Berry popping out of the water in her bikini, lots of scenes involving lasers, and the money shot - an awesome FX scene where it looks like half a forest explodes upwards from a shockwave. A bit of the plot is elaborated upon - a stunt where a man parachutes into Buckingham Palace introduces us to the Richard Branson-esque Gustav Graves whose developing a satellite technology called Icarus which will in effect create a `second sun` of sorts. However like all baddies there`s a lot more to it than that.

Thanks to `Spanish Bond` for the alert.