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Actor-Shared Background: Some of Bond's demons parallel Brosnan's: Bond lost his wife in On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Brosnan lost his wife to cancer). Bond alludes to this in GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough, without making a big point of it.
Development Hell / Saved from Development Hell: Not nearly as bad as most examples, but it took 6 years for Licence To Kill to get a follow-up due to legal problems, the longest tenure between two Bond films. During that, Timothy Dalton's contract expired and Pierce Brosnan got his job.
Fake Nationality: There's a lot of Fake Russians.
- The Georgian Xenia is played by the Dutch Famke Janssen.
- The Russian Boris played by the Scottish Alan Cumming.
- The Russian General Ourumov is played by the German Gottfried John.
- The Russian Zukovsky played by the British Robbie Coltrane.
- The Russian Natalya is played by the Polish-Swedish Izabela Scorupco
- An of course, the English James Bond played by the Irish Pierce Brosnan.
Hey, It's That Guy!:
- "James Bond just killed Sharpe!" And amusingly, in an episode of Sharpe, the latter's sidekick killed a character played by Daniel Craig. Nowadays, he's known as Boromir of Gondor. As well as Ned Stark, Lord of Winterfell.
- Xenia and Boris are [[ Jean Grey and Nightcrawler]].
  - These days, Boris works in Chicago. When he's not wandering around the O.Z. or introducing Masterpiece Mystery.
  - Xenia's now the ex-wife of an ex-spy.
- And Robbie Coltrane as Valentin Dmitriyev Zhukovsky, ie, Rubeus Hagrid. Or Eddie Fitzgerald for British TV Fans.
- Blink and you'll miss Minnie Driver as Valentin's tone-deaf mistress.
- Julius Caesar is Ourumov!
- Joe Don Baker (who was villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights) is Jack Wade!
  - MITCHELL!
Tuckerization: Jack Wade is named after uncredited screenwriter Kevin Wade.
What Could Have Been: Alan Rickman turned down the role of Alec Trevalyen. There was also talk of Anthony Hopkins playing role, with Trevelayan originally intended as having been a mentor/father figure to Bond rather than an equal.
- A subversion from a previous example. Pierce Brosnan was originally chosen to replace Roger Moore as James Bond but wasn't able to get out of his Remington Steele contract leading to Timothy Dalton getting the part.