History Trivia / DieAnotherDay

* GayPanic: According to Lee Tamahori, the LesYay between Miranda and Verity was originally much more blatant, but it was cut to avoid turning it into a male fantasy.

* ActorInspiredElement: It was Creator/PierceBrosnan's idea for Bond to have long hair and a beard in captivityfollowing his imprisonment in North Korea.

* OldShame: As noted above, Creator/PierceBrosnan doesn't look back too fondly on this film, and the producers and writers have all taken the blame for the questionable choices in the script.

** Creator/MichaelApted (director of [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough the previous film]]) was asked to return as director and he gladly accepted. Then, however:

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/PierceBrosnan suffered a knee injury jumping on to a hovercraft and Creator/HalleBerry needed surgery after debris from a smoke grenade flew into her eye.

* FakeNationality: The featured North Korean characters are played by Will Yun Lee and Rick Yune (both Korean American) and Kenneth Tsang (Hongkonger), not to mention Toby Stephens (British, through MagicPlasticSurgery). They all have varying success with the Korean lines, though none try to attempt to replicate the North Korean accent.

-->'''Robert Wade''': We didn't want it to actually be invisible, we just wanted it to be hard to see, camouflaged in a desert background or an icy background.
-->'''Neal Purvis''': It was a bit of a surprise to us that it had become invisible.

** Creator/PierceBrosnan clearly doesn't think too highly of this film, as when asked in the ''Everything Or Nothing'' documentary about the infamous glacier wave surfing scene, his only response was to burst out laughing at how ridiculous it was. He even called it "{{Narm}}y".

* FranchiseKiller: In a way. The film did quite a little bit of damage to the franchise itself by verging on excessive self-parody and CGI spectacle, with the ''Film/AustinPowers'' movies also helping reinforce that self-parody impression. This led to ''Die Another Day'' becoming the final James Bond film in the original franchise that started with ''Dr. No''; when Creator/DanielCraig came aboard and replaced Brosnan, Creator/EonProductions abandoned the continuity of the first 20 films and rebooted the series with ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', bringing only Creator/JudiDench through to the new timeline (as a different M at that). In addition, 2002 marked the cinematic debut of [[Film/TheBourneIdentity Jason Bourne]], who relied on his fists and wits rather than gadgets. The sleeper success of that film helped mark a shift in the spy genre towards more realism, and Creator/BarbaraBroccoli was quick to catch the trend.

* TheRedStapler: Less than a month after the film's release, UK fencing clubs saw an increase in the number of people interested in taking up the sport.

** Originally General Moon realizes much earlier that Gustav Graves is his son. While Bond and Jinx are exploring the Antonov, they stumble across General Moon and Bond explains to him who Graves really is. He then continues with Jinx to go for the cockpit, while the General watches Graves and Frost planning the military campaign

* ''Die Another Day'' wound up becoming extremely controversial in both North AND South Korea for a litany of (very complicated and very political reasons) that lead to significant backlash against the Bond franchise there and the film underperforming in the South Korean market. It got so bad that several major Western newspapers wrote stories about how the film had "united Korea in their mutual disdain for the film".

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The film tries to avoid dating itself by making the bad guys a faction of the North Korean military that's [[RenegadeRussian extreme even for them]], but still manages it due to the fact that the American intelligence agency with whom Bond and the MI-6 work this time is the NSA, meaning it could've only been made prior to that agency's reputation collapsing in TheNewTens after its [[BigBrotherIsWatching warrantless wiretapping scandal]] was made public.
** Early 2000s cellphones also give that impression [[TechnologyMarchesOn in the era of smartphones]].

* PromotedFanboy: Creator/RikYune was a Bond fan.

* ActorInspiredElement: It was Creator/PierceBrosnan's idea for Bond to have long hair and a beard in captivity.

* OldShame: As noted above, Pierce Brosnan doesn't look back too fondly on this film, and the producers and writers have all taken the blame for the questionable choices in the script.

** Creator/MichaelApted (director of [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough the previous film]]) was asked to return as director and he gladly accepted.
--->Then the new management un-invited me and I had this very difficult meeting with the Creator/{{B|arbara Broccoli}}roccolis where they said they had to un-invite me. [Creator/{{MGM}}] thought, We can do better than him. We want to put our mark on it. We can get Creator/TonyScott or Creator/JohnWoo and they couldn't. They came back to me, but by that time I had got another job. So that was unfortunate because I would have loved to have done another one.
** Creator/MartinCampbell was again asked to return as director and again, he passed on it.

** Creator/PierceBrosnan clearly doesn't think too highly of this film, as when asked in the ''Everything Or Nothing'' documentary about the infamous glacier wave surfing scene, his only response was to burst out laughing at how [[{{Narm}} ridiculous]] it was. He even called it "Narmy".

** Creator/MichaelApted was asked to return as director and he gladly accepted.
-->Then the new management un-invited me and I had this very difficult meeting with the Broccolis where they said they had to un-invite me. [Creator/{{MGM}}] thought, We can do better than him. We want to put our mark on it. We can get Creator/TonyScott or Creator/JohnWoo and they couldn't. They came back to me, but by that time I had got another job. So that was unfortunate because I would have loved to have done another one.

* FranchiseKiller: In a way. The film did quite a little bit of damage to the franchise itself by verging on excessive self-parody and CGI spectacle, with the ''Film/AustinPowers'' movies also helping reinforce that self-parody impression. This led to ''Die Another Day'' becoming the final James Bond film in the original franchise that started with ''Dr. No''; when Creator/DanielCraig came aboard and replaced Brosnan, EON abandoned the continuity of the first 20 films and rebooted the series with ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', bringing only Creator/JudiDench through to the new timeline (as a different M at that). In addition, 2002 marked the cinematic debut of [[Film/TheBourneIdentity Jason Bourne]], who relied on his fists and wits rather than gadgets. The sleeper success of that film helped mark a shift in the spy genre towards more realism, and Creator/BarbaraBroccoli was quick to catch the trend.

* ThrowItIn: In the middle of the sword fight, Graves fetches two broadswords. As he walks back towards Bond, Bond kicks his épée away towards ther camera. This move was never planned, and just happened on the day.