Following the release of '' Licence to Kill '' in July 1989 , pre-production work for the seventeenth film in the '' James Bond '' series , the third to star Timothy Dalton ( fulfilling his three-film contract ) , began in May 1990 . A poster for the then-upcoming movie was even featured on the Carlton Hotel during the 1990 Cannes Film Festival . In August , '' The Sunday Times '' reported that producer Albert R. Broccoli had parted company with writer Richard Maibaum , who had worked on the scripts of all but three Bond films so far , and director John Glen , responsible for the previous five instalments of the series . Broccoli listed among the possible directors John Landis , Ted Kotcheff , and John Byrum . Broccoli 's stepson Michael G. Wilson contributed a script , and '' Wiseguy '' co-producer Alfonse Ruggiero Jr. was hired to rewrite . Production was set to start in 1990 in Hong Kong for a release in late 1991
1990 Cannes Film Festival
1990 Cannes Film Festival
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