From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

James Bond character
Elliot Carver
Gender	Male
Role	Villain
Affiliation	Self-employed
Current status	Deceased
Portrayed by	Jonathan Pryce

Elliot Carver is a fictional character and the main villain from the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. In the film he is portrayed by Jonathan Pryce.

Carver is an international media baron who planned to start a war between the British and China so that his television network, the Carver Media Group Network, could secure exclusive broadcasting rights in China.

After learning his wife, Paris, was once Bond's lover and helped him recover a GPS encoder used to send ships off course, he had her killed by his personal assassin, Dr. Kaufman. Paris' murder ignited in Bond a rare emotional attachment to his mission.

Carver runs his operations on a stealth boat that can move undetected by radar. Bond and Chinese People's External Security Force agent Wai Lin infiltrate his boat and learn he's going to fire a missile at China so as to start a war.

Bond kills Carver by allowing a sea drill to grind up his body. The drill was previously used in the film as a torpedo-like drill that sank HMS Devonshire.

Carver is the third Bond villain to attempt to start a World War, the first being Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the second being Karl Stromberg.

Carver is based largely on two real-life media moguls: Rupert Murdoch and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.^{[citation needed]} A jab at Gates and Microsoft is made early in the film, when Carver inquires about his new computer software:

Carver- "Mr Jones are we ready to release our new software?"
Jones- "Yes sir, as requested, it's full of bugs. Which means people will be forced to upgrade for years."
Carver- "Outstanding."

He is also based, in part, on deceased British media magnate Robert Maxwell, who died in mysterious circumstances on his luxury yacht and who is believed to have committed suicide (though some believe he may have been assassinated). In the movie, M's cover story for Carver's death is strikingly similar.

Carver, in announcing his hypocritical 'Declaration of Principles' on the abortive inaugural broadcast of his news network, is also reminiscent of fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, who in turn was based on real tycoon William Randolph Hearst, whose famous quote "You provide the pictures, and I'll provide the war" Carver paraphrases to Bond on his stealth ship.

Preceded by Alec Trevelyan

Bond Villain 1997

Succeeded by Elektra King / Renard

• See List of James Bond henchmen in Tomorrow Never Dies