History Trivia / GoldenEye

** A number of St. Petersburg locations were actually shot in London; a limited amount of footage was taken in Russia including portions of the tank chase, however the majority of that scene was shot at Leavesden due to the city's concerns about causing too much damage.

** The monumental satellite dish and cradle in Janus' Cuban secret base were filmed on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory Arecibo Observatory]] in Puerto Rico.

** Alec Trevelyan almost shares a surname with John Trevalyan, the Secretary of the British Board of Film Censors when the first Bond films came out and the one who thus green-lit them despite critics at the time [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny thinking it was too violent and raunchy]], and who had died shortly before ''Licence to Kill'' was made (a decade earlier, but ''Licence'' was the last Bond film before this one).

* UnderageCasting: Trevelyan is the son of Lienz Cossacks (Ethnic Russians and Ukrainians who sided against the Soviet Union during World War II) and wants revenge against the British government for their betrayal in repatriating the Cossacks to the USSR following the war. Creator/SeanBean was born in 1959, making him way too young to have remembered any of this. The movie implies that Alec's parents survived the events but his father's shame years later led to the murder-suicide of himself and Alec's mother, and [=MI6=] figured Alec wouldn't remember. Still, the revenge plot makes more sense when you realize that the character was meant for an older actor. The [[VideoGame/GoldenEye2010 2010 video game remake]] where he is played by Creator/ElliotCowan (born 1976) simply threw out the plot in favor one where he seeks revenge over the Great Financial Crisis.