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Going rogue and stripped of his license to kill, Bond infiltrates Sanchez’s organization, posing as a mercenary. As he earns Sanchez’s trust, Bond strategically undermines the drug empire from within, leading to a series of intense confrontations and high-stakes action sequences.
Licence to Kill: Directed by John Glen. With Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto. A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death.
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- Action, Adventure, Thriller
- John Glen
- 1989-07-14
- Biography
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Background
Franz Sanchez is a Colombian drug lord running his own empire from the fictitious Republic of Isthmus. Owner of a large luxury estate, protected by an army of henchmen and controller of the city President, Sanchez has either bribed, intimidated or killed most of the government’s officials. Heading an international drugs cartel, Sanchez is both ruthless and merciless, yet is cultured, refined and a man of his word. Sanchez rewards loyalty but promises death to anyone who double-crosses him. Wi...
Capture and Escape
Prompted to leave the safety of his lair by the infidelity of his mistress, Lupe Lamora, Sanchez traveled to the Bahamas with his three main enforcers (Dario, Perez and Braun); catching her in bed with another man, Alvarez. Ordering Dario to cut out the man's heart as an ironic gesture, Sanchez then severely whips her with the tail of a stingray. As Sanchez makes his way back to the nearby airfield, he is intercepted by a DEA team comprised of Felix Leiter and James Bond (ostensibly, as an "o...
Isthmus
After maiming Leiter, Sanchez is smuggled back to safety in Isthmus, where he acquires four Stinger Missiles from the Contras and threatens to shoot down an American airliner if the DEA refuses to back off. He meets with five Asian drug lords as part of his goal of expanding his cocaine empire to incorporate the Pacific region; offering each of the men exclusive franchises in his narcotic product, priced at one million US dollars per territory. Unaware that one of the men is actually a Hong K...
Licence to Kill
The John Gardner's novelisation provides a little background information for Sanchez, noting in passing that he was so named because of a supposed conjunction between a fascist German woman and a wealthy Panamanian businessman. Furthermore, in the book, Sanchez acquires unidentified prototype missiles instead of Stinger missiles.Despite this, the character is almost identical to his cinematic counterpart.
Franz Sanchez also appears in the video game 007 Legends which takes its inspiration from the final act of Licence to Kill. In it, Sanchez is an infamous drug dealer operating out of Mexico and ruling over a vast criminal empire that stretches from North America down into Chile and Argentina; from the poppy fields of Afghanistan, to cocaine processing facilities in Colombia, and counterfeit goods and money laundering in Egypt. Sanchez was drawn to the drug trade from an early age, first raw m...
As a wealthy drug lord, Franz Sanchez was a cruel, ruthless and immoral man who was insensitive to the people he killed or caused to suffer. His violent and ruthless tendencies frightened even some of his own lieutenants, including Milton Krest and Truman-Lodge. However, despite his cruelty, Sanchez was a man of his word, obsessed with the loyalty ...
Robert Davi was cast as Sanchez following a suggestion by Albert R. Broccoli's daughter Tina, and screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who had seen Davi in the television film Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami. To portray Sanchez, Davi researched the Colombian drug cartels and how to do a Colombian accent, and since he was method actin...
Sanchez was seen at some points in the film accompanied by a pet iguana wearing a jewel-encrusted collar. The gaudy pet collar was likely a sign of Sanchez's ostenstatious display of ill-gotten wea...Robert Davi himself suggested that Sanchez smoke cigars. He also agreed with Benicio del Toro, who plays Dario, that the henchman should be the closest to Sanchez, giving them a brotherly relations...According to Ed Killifer, the number of felony counts Sanchez was facing in Florida totaled 139, so he would have faced a total sentence of 936 years in prison.Sanchez is arguably the darkest Bond villain in the franchise, due to his incredibly brutal methods of torture and killing (i.e. allowing Dario and his men to rape Della, maiming Felix Leiter by fe...Learn more about the full cast of Licence to Kill with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide. X ... 007 sets out to find the drug baron responsible and enforce justice, while a CIA pilot helps ...
- John Glen
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
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Budget. $32 million. Box office. $156.1 million. Licence to Kill is a 1989 spy film, the sixteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the second and final film to star Timothy Dalton as the MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, Bond resigns from MI6 in order to take revenge against the drug lord Franz Sanchez, who ordered an ...
