Tomorrow Never Dies, released in 1997, is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as MI6 agent James Bond. Bruce Feirstein is credited as writing the screenplay, although it received input from several writers, and it was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It follows Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering world events and starting World War III.
The film was produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and was the first James Bond film made after the death of veteran producer Albert R. Broccoli. Although not achieving the same level of success as GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies performed well in the box office and received many positive reviews; a drop in box office performance is usually credited to this movie opening the same day as Titanic.
"Tomorrow Never Dies" was the theme song to the 18th James Bond film of the same name. It was performed and co-written by Sheryl Crow and the song became her fifth UK Top 20 hit, peaking at #12 in 1997.
Another song, "Tomorrow Never Dies", written by composer David Arnold and performed by k.d. lang, was originally produced as the official theme tune. However, when Crow's song became the official theme the k.d. lang song was relegated to the end credits, and renamed to "Surrender (Tomorrow Never Dies)".
Along with one of Sheryl Crow's lesser-known songs, "The Difficult Kind", "Tomorrow Never Dies" is one of the few songs that Sheryl belts.
