Jonathan Pryce (Elliot Carver)

Jonathan Pryce playing Elliot Carver

Born in Holywell, Wales on 1st June 1947

Starred In Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Film information

Elliot Carver played by Jonathan Pryce is the third villain of Tomorrow Never Dies. After Stamper assassinates the survivors of the HMS Devonshire, he contacts Carver to tell him the number of sailors murdered for the front page of his newspaper headline.

Bond interrupts Carver’s launch party for a new satellite in Hamburg when he disrupts the electrical supply after a fight with some of Stampers men. Afterwards Carver views a sequence filmed by Henry Gupta showing Bond talking to Paris. Carver decides to make an appointment for his wife with the deadly Dr Kaufman when he learns Paris has betrayed him.

Carver prematurely creates James Bonds obituary when he is later captured alongside Wai Lin after investigating the HMS Devonshire. Bond makes sure his obituary doesn’t become a reality after undergoing a daring escape whilst handcuffed to Wai Lin. In the climax of the film, Elliot Carver becomes increasingly annoyed when he learns of Bonds defiant survival at the hands of Stamper. Holding Bond at gunpoint, Bond manages to gain access to the drill used to chop up the HMS Devonshire sending it gruesomely straight into Carver.

Character information

Elliot Carver is a world-renown media mogul who owns the Carver Media Group, with satellites worldwide providing a vast television network. This power-crazed megalomaniac seeks to start a war between England and China, thus giving him the perfect story for the launch of a new satellite allowing him to reach every human being on the planet. After striking a deal with various Chinese dignitaries, Carver sets into motion a plan that will give him exclusive broadcasting rights in China for the next 100 years.

With a sarcastic sense of humour, but completely ruthless, Carver arranges to have his wife killed by Dr Kaufman when he learns of her betrayal. Carver is not a man of his word who blackmails anyone to get his own way. When the blackmail victim does what Carver asks, he double-crosses them. Obsessed with the media, Carver tells Bond that the world is no longer run by money or weapons, but by information. Cultured and intelligent, Carver like so many similar villains falls foul to Bond when he confronts him one-to-one without the aid of his henchmen. §