Director Lee Tamahori, Halle Berry, and Pierce Brosnan at the Paris premiere of Die Another Day. (Getty Images)If Lee Tamahori could change anything about his James Bond film Die Another Day it would be the film’s use of CGI in one infamous scene.“The only thing I’d do differently [with Die Another Day] would be the kitesurfing sequence,” director Tamahori tells Yahoo over the phone from New Zealand, where he’s shooting his next film.“I don’t know how you’d do it differently. It was virtually impossible to do it for real as a real stunt: falling off the edge of a glacier, hastily concocting a kite-surfing rig, and kitesurfing your way out of danger. If you tried to do it for real… you just couldn’t do it.”Read more: 16 actors who could be the next James Bond“The VFX and CGI was the only way out of it.”That particular scene in the 2002 film — which had its world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall 20 years ago on 18 November, 2002 — sees Bond escaping an arctic tidal wave with the help of some shockingly poor CGI.Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in Die Another Day. (MGM/Eon Productions)That moment, along with the film’s ‘invisible’ Aston Martin, became a lightning rod for criticism of the 20th entry in the long-running spy series which to many – at that point – seemed to have gone beyond parody.However, the public enjoyed it and the high-concept 007 thriller was the highest-grossing Bond film to date when it… Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK
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