20 Things You Didn't Know About The World Is Not Enough (1999)
12. Shades Of Elliot Carver
In Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), evil media mogul, Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) was intended to be the illegitimate son of British press baron, Lord Roverman and a Hong Kong-based German prostitute. A deleted scene from that film touched upon this, as did Carver’s reference to his having worked for a rag of a newspaper in Hong Kong.
However, Raymond Benson’s novelisation of that film did not spare any details, disclosing how Carver had reached out to his illegitimate father, only to be rejected by him.
Carver then devoted his energies to destroying Lord Roverman and taking control of his empire, blackmailing the newspaper tycoon into rewriting his will in favour of Carver and then forcing him to commit suicide. Although Roverman's will was contested by his widow and daughter, the courts ruled in Carver's favour, allowing him to inherit his estranged father's empire.
Whilst Carver’s full backstory was deleted from the film, the idea of a villain fostering hatred for their father and ultimately destroying him in order to take control of his business was not forgotten. It was very soon applied to the character of Elektra King, who schemed to destroy her father and take control of his business when he declined to pay her ransom during her kidnapping.