Elliot Carver

Elliot Carver is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. In the film he is portrayed by Jonathan Pryce. Screenwriter Bruce Feirstein modelled the character on Robert Maxwell, but many viewers analysed Carver as a satirical take on Rupert Murdoch. Elliot Carver is born in Hong Kong. Officially an orphan, he is the illegitimate son of a German woman who died in childbirth and Lord Roverman, a press ... more

Elliot Carver is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. In the film he is portrayed by Jonathan Pryce. Screenwriter Bruce Feirstein modelled the character on Robert Maxwell, but many viewers analysed Carver as a satirical take on Rupert Murdoch. Elliot Carver is born in Hong Kong. Officially an orphan, he is the illegitimate son of a German woman who died in childbirth and Lord Roverman, a press tycoon. A Chinese family takes the boy for a one-time fee of 50 pounds. Thirty years later, Carver confronts and blackmails Roverman into suicide and takes over his media empire. This expanded background is found in the official novelization of Tomorrow Never Dies, and it is also shown in a deleted extended scene in the Tomorrow Never Dies Ultimate collectors edition DVD. Over the course of the film he is shown to be insane. In the novelization Elliot Carver went to college in Hong Kong and received a degree in the communication arts. He was... less