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The World Is Not Enough

The World Is Not Enough was the 19th film in the James Bond franchise and the third to start Pierce Brosnan as secret agent 007.

The plot saw Bond assigned to protect the daughter of an oil magnate, Sir Robert King, who was building a petroleum pipeline through the Caucasus. Early on, King is killed by an explosion at the MI6 headquarters in London for which Russian terrorist, Victor Zokas aka Renard (Robert Carlyle), was believed responsible.

As Renard had previously abducted King’s daughter, Elektra (Sophie Marceau), Bond was assigned to protect her. It later transpires that Elektra was responsible for her father’s death as payback because he had used her as bait to lure Renard. Bond also discovered a larger plot by the pair to massively increase petroluem prices by triggering a nuclear meltdown in the waters around Istanbul. This would leave the King Industries pipeline as the only viable method of extracting petroleum from the Caspian region.

Filming took place in Bilbao, London, Scotland, Baku and Istanbul between January and June of 1999.

The World Is Not Enough premiered on November 19th of that year in Los Angeles.

It was the third James Bond movie to feature a BMW as 007’s mode of transportation. The German auto maker had signed a three-picture deal back in 1995 that had previously seen James Bond drive a Z3 in Goldeneye and a 750 iL in Tomorrow Never Dies.