BMW Z8 and Pierce Brosnan

After a spectacular series of events when Valentin’s caviar factory on the City of Walkways in Baku is destroyed and Bond saves his life, they follow Renard to Istanbul for the final confrontation in the claustrophobic confines of a nuclear submarine beneath the surface of the Bosphorus.

The Locations

In keeping with previous Bond films, the overseas locations for THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH are both exotic and exciting.

TURKEY: Establishing scenes were filmed in Istanbul with special attention to the famous Maiden’s Tower, situated on a small island in the middle of the Bosphorus.

AZERBAIJAN: The capital city of Baku, a large oil centre, is in a very strategic military position. During World War II, Hitler was convinced that if Germany could take Baku then they could win the war.

All the oil wells, which supplied the whole of the Soviet Union, are situated off the coast of the Caspian Sea with long causeways stretching as far as 50 kilometres out to sea.

Several important action sequences are shot in Baku, including the destruction of Valentin’s caviar factory – accessible only by a network of raised walkways and platforms constructed above the waters of the Caspian Sea.

FRANCE: In the French Alps, Bond and Elektra test each other on the snowy slopes before they are attacked by heavily armed men on flying skis and are then trapped by an avalanche.

Spain: The dramatic, action-packed opening scenes of the pre-title sequence take place in the penthouse office of a Swiss bank situated on the banks of the Nervion River in Bilbao, overlooking the new Guggenheim Art Gallery.

The Bardenas Reales, near Tudela, was the setting for sequences above the underground nuclear test facility, supposedly in Kazakhstan, and the vast construction site and pipeline in the shadow of the Caucasus Mountains were filmed in Los Callejones, Las Majadas, near Cuenca.

UK: A spectacular high-speed boat chase up the River Thames in London terminating at the Millennium Dome, marks the exciting climax to a dramatic pre-title sequence.

Eilean Donan Castle in Ross-shire, Scotland, becomes Castle Thane, the remote MI-6 Operations Centre.