20 Things You Didn't Know About Die Another Day
17. “Luckily I Asked For It Shaken.”
Prior to the scene in which James Bond and Jinx stow away in the landing gear of Gustav Graves’s Antonov An-124 Condor cargo plane in the film’s final act, Double-0 Seven was to have performed a similar daredevil act onboard a British Airways airliner on his return from Cuba.
As the aircraft approached Heathrow Airport, Bond - then a fugitive from MI6 - would have climbed down into the aircraft’s landing gear before dismounting directly onto the tarmac to bypass Customs.
This scene was shot in March 2002 in the British Airways engineering facilities at Heathrow Airport using a green screen and wind machines, but was cut from the final film for timing reasons.
Later, as he and Jinx climb aboard Graves’s taxiing Antonov in North Korea, Double-0 Seven was to have reassured her that he had done this before, but this was also cut for continuity reasons.
Nevertheless, both sequences still feature in Raymond Benson’s novelisation of the film, based on the original shooting script.