20 Things You Didn’t Know About Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
10. I Feel Nothing.
Whilst Götz Otto has blue eyes, he wore a contact lens during production to make Stamper’s right eye brown, which is very difficult to see in most of his scenes.
The idea was adapted from the original script for A View to a Kill (1985), for which David Bowie was approached to portray Max Zorin. Bowie had contracted heterochromia (one of his eyes became a lighter colour than the other) after being punched during a fight. However, when Bowie declined the role of Zorin, the idea was discarded.
It was resurrected for Stamper in Tomorrow Never Dies, but was sadly only detectable in certain close-ups and stills photographs.
In early versions of the script, Stamper had also suffered a brain injury that caused him to register pain as pleasure. Although this was discarded (but appeared in Raymond Benson's novelisation of the film), an aspect of it was adapted for Renard (Robert Carlyle) in The World Is Not Enough.