Stephens said about his new role. "I knew I would never get to play James Bond, so playing the villain was very much second best, but great for me."

Gustav Graves, the film's Richard Branson-esque villain, is to be modelled on the famous British entrepreneur. Director Lee Tamahori said in a recent interview that the film needed "a very effervescent & buoyant character."

He added, "Usually the chief villains are the same age as Bond, or older. But we decided to peg this villain as a much younger guy". Graves is an energetic and extreme sportsman, rather like the British speed hero Donald Campbell, who pushed himself to the edge. "When he and Bond go at each other in this movie, they do it with great physical gusto because that's what the roles entail".

Graves is an orphan who worked in Argentinean diamond mines in his youth, which lead him to his pursuit and dominance of the diamond trade. Graves owns a lucrative diamond mine in Iceland.

He is a keen ecologist, champion fencer, and developer of the Icarus space programme.

"People really need stories of good versus evil where good triumphs. That is archetypal, and humanity requires that, and this gives humanity that. They also want to see somebody they would love to be, getting out of the most ridiculous situations, and James Bond does that. He’s the guy who always gets away. Somehow manages to turn things around and how is he going to do that, how is he going to get out of this situation. It’s like the old style cliff-hangers it fulfils all of those things and people always want to see that."

Graves resides in his palace in Iceland, where Bond, Jinx and Miranda Frost all attend a party.

The party is to celebrate Graves' new status after he is knighted by the Queen early in the film for his world-wide command for mining diamonds.

The mining is also linked to the main device of the film, a space based super weapon.

Left: The "Graves Diamonds" logo

Jinx, an NSA agent, is sent by her superior (Damian Falco) to investigate Graves. Miranda Frost has gained Graves` trust as his fencing instructor but is secretly spying in her capacity as an MI6 agent. Bond however, is on a personal mission to discover who betrayed his cover in the Korean pretitles sequence.

After a bedroom rendezvous between Bond and Frost, and a fight between the facially mutated Zao and 007, the ice palace is melted by Graves` space super weapon ("a second sun" - rumoured to be called Icarus).

The action continues with Bond escaping the melting ice palace in the Aston Martin Vanquish, with Zao hot on his trail in a Jaguar XKR.

Источник

Абсолютно согласна - дубляж отвратный. В бондиане почему-то почти всех главгадов так паршиво дублируют. Лучше в оригинале смотреть - голос у Тоби ну просто шикарный.

Подробности здесь

О дополнительных материалах:

На диске есть комментарии от Розамунд Пайк и Пирса Броснана а также от режиссера Ли Тамахори и продюсера Майкла Дж. Уилсона. Аудио комментарии информативные, дают много инсайта с разных точек зрения от тех, кто стоял перед камерой и от тех, кто был за ней.
На диске также коллекция роликов к фильму, несколько промо-фотографий и трек с общей информацией.

Слава тебе, господи, за эту их неосмотрительность! Иначе фильмография Тоби сократилась бы на один фильм, а "Умри, но не сейчас" не был бы таким классным эпизодом Бондианы!