Tomorrow Never Dies Restored Deleted Scenes - Briefing Scene

The second of my restorations of deleted scenes from Tomorrow Never Dies, allowing them to be seen in the full context of how they could have been integrated into the final cut of the film. This scene features the briefing scene between Bond, M and Robinson which was largely cut down and rearranged in the final edit of the film. This original sequence supplies some interesting classic Fleming-esque background on villain Elliot Carver. The scene is supplied on home media as a raw cut, so here I've recut and reassembled it into a more logical sequence using some shots from the final cut of the film.
The sound design of both scenes has been rebuilt from the ground up (including dialogue pitch correction), and I've visually cleaned up and colour corrected the deleted scenes as best I can to match the surrounding footage. There's only so much that can be done, however, as these clips have only ever been released in abysmal quality, sadly, even on the Blu-Ray. It would be nice to finally get some high-quality versions of these someday!

[okradiohead]

Reading the books, I've actually come to enjoy all the extra exposition, ESPECIALLY the villain's backstory. Wish they kept in just a tad more

[RadagonTheRed]

I feel motion sick just watching this!

[jks]

We now present to you: a deleted scene from Tomorrow Never Dies. Starring: the bumpiest road in London.

[Kessler]

This is brilliantly edited! Great work on restoring a fun scene to its originally intended form 🙌 But the outrageous bumpiness of that Daimler’s crap suspension is actually weirdly stressful and I found it so frustrating trying to watch all of the actors fail to put a glass anywhere near their faces in this speedy briefing 😂

[ryanslade]

The Brotherhood of MI6 is fantastic 😂❤ M is the stern/sarcastic Mother. Bond is the handsome troublemaker. Moneypenny is the nosy Sister & Charles is the level headed older brother

[AgentMrX]

idk why, but the idea of M, Moneypenny, Robinson and Bond speeding around London in the back of a limo struggling to drink is fucking hilarious.

[Deadmancrawler]

2:20 "remind her....then pump her 4 information" hahaha gotta love M. Telling james bond 2 do anything necessary like sex 2 complete a mission

[blinkfan]

TMD doesn't get enough credit as a solid Bond film, but I'm definitely a fan

[alfredvalrie]

2:13 homie’s lapel has a drink stain 😂

[James-C]

Why this was chopped down i dont know. It adds so much context to the character and understanding.

[JOSH-lwjv]

This was a good re-edit, though I personally would've kept Pierce's ad-lib: "Smooth ride, M." at the end.

[HamanKarn]

Even though Bill Tanner was still there I did like Robinson/Colin Salmon so anything that gives him more screen time is awesome.

[tactilefile]

Yeah, it adds context. But I can see why they cut it out. Pierce definitely struggled to sip his scotch @0:29

[BeeABaw]

I can see why the chopped it down, it was very sloppy context. I can see why there voices were recorded in post, it sounds like they were in a tin can.

[stxa]

I was asking myself upon watching this the first time "why on earth are they boozing in the middle of a working day travelling inside a car"?

[WhiteJarrah]

This might have benefited from some additional exterior shots of the car to mask the edits. But I guess, what you have to work with.

[mrjack]

I’m really interested in backstory of Carver. Ive always seen him as one Bonds more interesting adversaries.

[oneandonlysound]

As if it EVER MADE SENSE to delete ANY SCENE with Judi Dench in it, and while I didn't think he should play James Bond as suggested as he kept appearing, more Colin Salmon never hurt anything either. Judi Dench's M has more balls than 1/2 the men who played the character on top of it, sad she left and got replaced with castrated Ralph Fiennes (as if he couldn't nail the role with a good script, and he acted less weak in his pre-role for it in Skyfall). Anyways thanks for the restoration work, seeing more from this film both in the context of plot relevancy to today more than the 90's, and it being more well rounded with stuff they deleted makes really wish there was a director's cut. An extended edition of Quantum of Solace as well (not D-cut because the director was the reason it was too short and even seems like 10 minutes just go missing at some point).

[danielross]

Nice!!! And interesting, but I can see why they cut it down.... and Rolls Royces have far better suspension than that.

[PhukYu]

Elon Musk: M you have 48 hours to investigate!