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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Die Another Day can be found here.

No. Die Another Day is based on a screenplay co-written by screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade who, along with Bruce Feirstein, also wrote the script for the previous movie, The World Is Not Enough (1999). The screenplay was subsequently novelized by American author Raymond Benson. Die Another Day is the 20th Bond film in the EON series, and the fourth and last to star Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.

The title song, "Die Another Day " is performed by Madonna.

In the precredits scenario, Bond is undercover on a military base on the Pukch'ong Coast of North Korea negotiating a deal with Colonel Moon (Will Yun Lee)'s assistant Zao (Rick Yune) for diamonds in exchange for weaponry. Bond is taken prisoner when his identity is betrayed. He is subsequently tortured until he is released in a prisoner exchange 14 months later. He is confined for recuperation on a ship near Hong Kong and stripped of his 00 status because M (Judi Dench) believes that he was revealing sensitive information to North Korea during his torture. When Bond learns that M is going to have him moved to an evaluation center in the Falklands, Bond jumps ship in order to track down his betrayer. From a Chinese Intelligence man posing as a hotel manager, he learns that Zao has been sighted in Havana, Cuba. Once in Cuba, Bond learns that Zao is staying at a gene therapy clinic on an island in the Los Organes. There he meets U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) agent Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson (Halle Berry). Bond blows up the clinic, but Zao and Jinx escape. From a necklace that Bond grabbed from Zao's neck, he uncovers several diamonds, all chemically alike to conflict diamonds from Africa and all bearing the mark of Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), a diamond miner from Iceland. After making the acquaintance of Graves in a rousing sword fight at the local fencing club, Bond is invited to Iceland to view the unveiling of the Icarus project. In an attempt to stop Graves from using Icarus to cut a path through the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, Bond sneaks aboard an airplane that takes him to the Pyongang Airbase in North Korea.

Conflict diamond refers to a diamond, typically mined in Africa and sold in order to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, or to support a warlord's activity.

Icarus is an orbital mirror satellite that captures the sun's rays and focuses them at the Earth. It is hailed as a way of providing sunlight and warmth, like a second sun, to the darker parts of the Earth so that crops can be grown to end world hunger. Unfortunately, Icarus can also be used to focus the sun's energy for destructive purposes.

"Q" is the nickname given to the head of Quartermaster branch, the section of MI6 that supplies Bond with his gadgets. The previous Q, (Desmond Llewelyn), retired in The World is not Enough (Llewelyn actually passed away in December 1999), so his assistant, whom Bond called "R", received a promotion and became the new Q.

No. To obtain a pg-13 rating the sexscene between Bond and Jinx had to be cut slightly. The censored version was shown in cinemas and has been released at least on the first DVD. If you want to find out whether your US-version is uncut or not, check out the following comparison between the cut pg-13-version and the uncut verion: Klick