!!For the Movie:
* BackedByThePentagon: [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] initially moved to block the filming of a scene around their headquarters, citing security concerns, but were overruled by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, saying "After all Bond has done for Britain, it was the least we could do for Bond." In the end, when the film was screened for the office staff, they cheered during the bombing scene.
* BTeamSequel: Roger Spottiswoode, who directed the previous film ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', declined to return as director following the TroubledProduction of that film. Creator/MartinCampbell, who directed the film before that one, ''Film/GoldenEye'', was asked to return, but declined.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Sir Robert King's funeral is supposed to be in Scotland, but due to Creator/JudiDench appearing in a play in London's West End, it was filmed outside of London.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Maria Grazia Cucinotta was considered for the role of Elektra, but this was nixed when it was discovered her English wasn't up to par. This did however, parlay into her brief but memorable role as the Cigar Girl Assassin.
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/DeniseRichards stated in her autobiography ''The Real Girl Next Door'' that she did not have a happy experience on the film. She claimed that Creator/MichaelApted made no effort to build any comradery on set or give her much direction. She felt very lonely and unwanted (as her casting was ExecutiveMeddling from Creator/{{MGM}}) and depressed at the negative reviews she received.
* CutSong: The soundtrack album of this film includes a song titled "Only Myself to Blame", sung by Music/ScottWalker. Originally, Music/DavidArnold intended to use this song during the end credits, but it was considered too glum to go out on, so a techno remix of the James Bond theme was used instead.
* DeletedScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lajajkrSa2c Plenty]].
** The Cigar Girl meets Renard in the opening after Bond's escape from the banker's office.
** Bond's pursuit of King through the Vauxhall Cross building takes much longer as originally filmed. The reason for this cut was because of the decision to move the title credits sequence to after the Thames chase, instead of after the Bilbao fight.
** So does his seduction of Dr. Warmflash. Including a funny moment where he tosses his sling onto a suit of armor.
** The Q scene was longer.
** The sequence of Bond and Elektra's meeting in Azerbaijan takes much longer also, which also added more information on Elektra's backstory.
** Bond and Elektra returning to her home from the casino and sharing a kiss on the staircase before heading to her bedroom.
** M's arrival in Azerbaijan and greeting Bond was also longer and included Bond introducing M to Dr. Jones.
** Bond drives his Aston Martin [=DB5=] to Sir Robert King's funeral.
* FakeMixedRace: Elektra King, being half-British and half-Azeri, and implied to have been raised in the Soviet Union (it's said that her family had fled the Soviet Union many years earlier), manages to fit both FakeBrit, FakeRussian, and fake Middle-Eastern at the same time, since she's played by Frenchwoman Creator/SophieMarceau.
* FakeNationality: Renard, a Bosnian who worked for the KGB and then became a terrorist, is played by the Scottish Creator/RobertCarlyle.
* FakeRussian:
** The Russian Zukovsky is played by Scottish actor Creator/RobbieColtrane.
** In a half-way Elektra King--see above.
* HeyItsThatPlace: Castle Thane is Eilean Donan Castle, which was featured in ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', starring former Bond Creator/SeanConnery.
* OrphanedReference:
** In the opening, Bond visits a Swiss banker and is offered a Cuban cigar. These are holdovers from previous drafts where the pre-credits sequence took place in Havana, then Switzerland.
** In the extended opening, M says that the classified report is a study by the Russians on [=Y2K=] impacting their computer systems. This would have tied in with R's line at the end of the film.
** Renard's final spoken line to Elektra is "Au revoir", a holdover from an early draft when he was French, not to mention the fact that Renard is French for fox. Plus, Creator/JeanReno was supposed to play him.
* PromotedFangirl: [[Music/{{Garbage}} Shirley Manson]] was a Bond fan and jumped at the chance to do the theme song.
-->As soon as I knew we were doing it, I ran out and bought a compilation album and listened to a few of the classics, but I got so spooked I had to stop. But then I remembered - and realised I was covered. At least, I wouldn't go down in history as the worst Bond theme.
* RefittedForSequel:
** Renard's pain-killing brain injury was originally written for Stamper in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.
** Much of Creator/RobbieColtrane's lines were derived from cut scenes from the ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}'' script.
** The helicopters with sawblades originally appeared in an early draft of ''Goldeneye''.
** Zuchovsky's return and Q's retirement appeared in early drafts of ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.
* RoleReprise: For the [[VideoGame/TheWorldIsNotEnough video game]], even though most of the characters are voiced by professional voice actors as opposed to the actual actors from the film the game is based on, Creator/JohnCleese actually reprises his role as R from the movie. Although footage of him in the film only appears in the extended 007 difficulty ending in the Platform/PlayStation version.
* SparedByTheCut:
** There was reportedly a plan for Elektra King to survive and for Bond to visit her in the hospital where she was being treated for UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome, but this was considered too downbeat.
** There was a deleted scene where Bond later checks Valentin's pulse. There would later be a scene where Dr. Warmflash takes Valentin in and finds out he was shot in the ribs and she eventually gets the bullet out.
* StarDerailingRole: The frequently maligned performance of Creator/DeniseRichards (which nabbed her and the film a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward after Creator/TanyaRoberts only got nominated for ''Film/AViewToAKill'') practically killed her rising career in film (her infamous marriage with Creator/CharlieSheen didn't help matters). Her biggest role since this film was two years later as a middle-billed cast member in the slasher film ''Film/{{Valentine}}''.
* ThrowItIn:
** Creator/PierceBrosnan ad-libbed the part where he adjusts his tie while underwater during the boat chase.
** The stunt of grabbing the cables on the Millennium Dome took several tries to get right. Apted put in one of the shots of the stuntman missing the cables to give a better sense of how hard it was.
* UncreditedRole: Creator/MichaelApted's then-wife Dana Stephens did an uncredited rewrite of the script, largely fleshing out the female characters at the request of Barbara Broccoli.
* UnderageCasting: The movie was much mocked for having its main Bond Girl, Christmas Jones, played by the twenty-nine-year-old Creator/DeniseRichards, be supposedly a world-renowned nuclear physicist. What makes it stand out even more is that Dr. Arkov was clearly in his fifties.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/JamesBond Enough for its own page]].
* WordOfGod: In the DVDCommentary, Creator/MichaelApted implies that Zukovsky might not have actually died, though any potential further plans for him were scrapped with the franchise's reboot after the next film.
* WorkingTitle: Initially, this was due for release in 2000, with rumored titles including ''Elektra'', ''A Whisper of Love'', ''A Whisper of Hate'', ''Death Waits for No Man'', ''Fire and Ice'', ''Pressure Point'', and ''Dangerously Yours''.
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!!For the Video Game:
* TheOtherDarrin: Tim Bentinck as James Bond, doing his best Creator/PierceBrosnan impression. He did a pretty good job, too.
* ReferencedBy:
** ''VideoGame/ShadowOpsRedMercury'' has a Kazakhstan level which is transplanted almost wholesale from the Kazakhstan level in this one. Besides the locations, the player is introduced to the protagonist's (James Bond / Frank Hayden) on-off lover, Galena / Christmas in an identical first meeting. Both games also contains a shootout against mooks in a circular room with enemies swarming left and right, the LoveInterest character running between control panels where the hero needs to provide cover for, an escape attempt down a shaft, and an OutrunTheFireball cutscene followed by the hero (Bond or Frank) being chewed over his recklessness in the prior mission. [[spoiler:Not to mention both games having a HiddenVillain, Kate Daniels and Electra King]].
* TroubledProduction: According to interviews, this hit the planned Platform/PlayStation2 version. The team behind the game started development on PC but some [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddling]] from EA resulted in its development getting halted so that it could get ported to the [=PS2=]. However id Tech 3 was primarily designed for the PC so, alongside having to update it for the PC version, it needed to be ported to [=PS2=] which the porting team encountered issues with memory and rendering which took so long for the team to resolve that the game needed a delay (from MGM) and eventually got cancelled (by EA) in favor of putting out something polished in the next year which came to be ''VideoGame/AgentUnderFire''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: After the cancellation of the PC/[=PS2=] game, EA planned to have the N64 game ported over to [=PS2=]. This didn't go anywhere however as Eurocom declined to do it in the two months they were given. The only remnant of this was a tech demo created by one of the ''VideoGame/NightFire'' developers.
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