Trivia
(The Living Daylights)

The woman seen on the promotional poster was Los Angeles model Kathy Stangel who earned $600 for her work.

Frederick Warder and Glyn Baker were cast as the two murdered agents in the opening sequence because they closely resembled Roger Moore and George Lazenby. The producers wanted to play with the expectations of their audience as to who the new Bond was.

During the opening battle, Bond drives a jeep through some umbrellas that have the initials "JB" printed on them.

• An earlier draft of the script featured several scenes and developments that failed to make it to the finished film:
• In the second draft screenplay, it is General Gogol who is being set up by Koskov, not Pushkin.
  
  
• Bond and Kara were originally going to escape from Kara's apartment by stealing the car belonging to one of the KGB agent supposedly keeping an eye on her. The KGB agents give chase and Bond writes the car off on the ice of a frozen lake, the couple continuing their flight aboard a hijacked ice schooner.
  
  
• On escaping from the air base in Afghanistan, Bond and Kara were to have been taken to Landi- Kotal by Ranjit Khan [who later became Kamran Shah] where they witness a massive arms bazaar. They are pursued by jailers from the air base and Bond disposes of one of them by pitching him into a pit full of yarn dye. He eludes his other pursuers by using his exploding key ring to set off the contents of a Chinese fireworks warehouse. The arms bazaar sequence would eventually turn up in the teaser to Tomorrow Never Dies [1997].
  
  
• Originally, Bond and Kara did not escape from Koskov's Hercules on a jeep, but actually flew with the aircraft to a US aircraft carrier which Bond was going to attempt a landing on, despite the US navy's attempts to shoot them down. When M and Moneypenny step in to confirm the identity of the pilot, the carrier captain was to have allowed Bond to make his landing but the oversized aircraft careers off the end of the deck and Bond and Kara survive only by clinging to a cargo net.

In the teaser, Bond leaps from the jeep that careers over the cliff and opens his parachute. At first, he seems to be rather low to the sea, but in a subsequent shot he seems to be much higher up.

Why does that woman on the yacht tell her friend on the phone that "it's all so boring here" - a jeep just fell off a cliff and exploded nearby! Didn't she notice, or does she not deem such an event to be sufficiently exciting?

During the car chase across the ice, one of the Aston Martin's tyres is blown out and Bond uses the wheel rim to cut a large hole in the ice. However, when the pursuing police car falls into the hole, it's suddenly much smaller. The tyre also reappears when the car jumps back into the woods.

The car has further continuity problems - after it lands back on the snow, the left hand wing mirror is folded down, but just before it blows up, the mirror is back in its normal position.

Bond and Kara make good their escape on board Kara's cello case and are repeatedly shot at as they go. When Kara later takes the cello out, there's a bullet hole in the front of the instrument, but not in the back, implying that the bullet entered the cello but never came out again...

When exactly are the Austria scenes supposed to be set? While Bond is in Bratislava, it seems to be mid-winter, but when he and Kara arrive in Vienna, it's clearly springtime!

Bond and Kara arrive in Vienna near the Prater ferris wheel which implies that they are in the northern part of the city. Bond then hails a horse-drawn taxi and they set off. But horse-drawn taxis don't serve that part of Vienna, remaining inside the inner city area. Even if the drivers did want to go that far, they wouldn't make it as a network of busy traffic roads lie between the city centre and the ferris wheel.

Bond finds a balloon next to Saunders' body, which doesn't make sense - Necros had already made it clear that his balloons are filled with helium which would mean that the balloon should have floated away.

Bond and Kara arrive in Afghanistan in broad daylight. Almost immediately, they are captured and put in jail. They manage to escape fairly quickly, but it's now night outside!

When Bond and Necros fight in and around the cargo aircraft, it seems to change between a two- prop Transall C-160 and the much larger four-prop Lockheed Hercules.

Bond complains that there's no flat ground on which to land the cargo aircraft, but when he and Kara drive the jeep out of the cargo hold, they find themselves on a road in the middle of a very flat plain with but a single mountain nearby. Why didn't Bond notice this before? Also, how did the aircraft manage to crash so high up in that mountain? It was very close to the ground when Bond and Kara bailed out, but seems to impact the mountain much higher up.

As Bond prepares to break into Whitaker's house, night seems to be falling. But moments later, Bond attacks a guard and it seems to be broad daylight!

Early drafts had Kamran Shah named Ranjit.