One of the schemes of the novel's antagonist Francisco Scaramanga was to open an hotel called the Thunderbird on the beach.

Scaramanga was played by British actor Christopher Lee, who is also the cousin of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond.

Francisco Scaramanga, of Catalan origin, became a trick shot and performed in acts in a circus owned by his father Enrico while a youngster, and he also cared for one of the circus elephants, which he stated was his only real friend.

Francisco Scaramanga was a British national born in a travelling circus.

Scaramanga also demonstrates his marksmanship to Bond by using a Colt Single Action Army to shoot the cork off a bottle of champagne from long range ( Scaramanga's golden gun in the novel is a gold-plated Single Action Army ), claiming later that it was a toy.

Scaramanga was hired by Hai-Fat to assassinate a British scientist named Gibson, thought to be in possession of solar energy information and technology crucial to solving the energy crisis.

Once again, Scaramanga was voiced by Christopher Lee.

In the original GoldenEye game, it is said in the briefing for the " Egyptian " mission that the Golden Gun was stolen from Scaramanga by Baron Samedi.

But, when Scaramanga was killed and his island destroyed, the Golden Gun was presumably also lost.

Scaramanga was not the first Bond antagonist to use a golden gun.

Scaramanga was mentioned in the British television show Dead Ringers on a sketch parodying Die Another Day.

The Matador Coupe was used in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun as the car of choice of Francisco Scaramanga.

" They followed this with the album Scaramanga, which was produced by Bryce Goggin, and released in both the UK and Japan.

During the 1980s, Cardiacs were a professed influence or inspiration for Marillion, It Bites and British psychedelic acts such as Ring ; during the 1990s, emerging bands and musicians who were Cardiacs fans included Blur, Radiohead, Supergrass Shane Embury of Napalm Death, Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, The Scaramanga Six, The Monsoon Bassoon and The Wildhearts ( who would later pay direct tribute via their track " Tim Smith " on 2009's Chutzpah !).

For his job of eliminating Dr. No, a fellow official of the criminal organization who has declared war on Goldfinger's branch of the organization, he is given a gold-hued cybernetic eye created by Francisco Scaramanga, another official of Goldfinger's organization ( from which he receives his codename " GoldenEye ").

When the elephant went on a rampage during the circus visit to Trieste, Scaramanga witnessed a policeman kill him.

In the novel, British intelligence also has an in-depth psychological profile on Scaramanga, which is printed in the book before the mission begins.

Scaramanga lives very well, drawing from the exorbitant sums of money he charges to carry out his assassinations, and has built his home on his own personal island somewhere off the coast of south-eastern China-paying for lease of the island and protection through assassinations (' favours ') for the Chinese.

Nick Nack hires assassins to kill Scaramanga as a challenge to keep him on his toes.

Besides the profit and / or power the solex agitator can give him, Scaramanga's scheme in acquiring the device is also intended to lure Bond to Scaramanga's private island so that the two of them can engage in one final, decisive duel ( Although Bond is using his eight-bullet. 32 Walther PPK pistol while Scaramanga uses the golden gun, Scaramanga states that he ' only needs one ', Bond's superior number of bullets being offset by Scaramanga's advantages of fighting on his own ground ).

Scaramanga apparently lives alone on his private island, accompanied only by Nick Nack, Miss Anders ( his kept woman ), and a mechanic named Kra who is in charge of maintenance and security.

In the James Bond novel The Man With the Golden Gun, agent 007 orders a pink gin with Beefeater and " plenty of bitters " in the bar of the Thunderbird Hotel in Jamaica, which is operated by his nemesis Francisco Scaramanga.

Support bands were always musicians with a professed Cardiacs connection or influence, and included Oceansize, The Monsoon Bassoon, The Scaramanga Six, Stars In Battledress and Jon Poole's hard-rock band GodDamnWhores.

This tour saw another substitution – drummer Stephen Gilchrist ( Graham Coxon, The Scaramanga Six, Stuffy / The Fuses ) stood in for Bob Leith, who had previous tour commitments with art-punk band Blurt.

In the 1974 James Bond film The Man With the Golden Gun, villain Francisco Scaramanga says of his manservant Nick Nack, " He's a Cordon Bleu.

He also appeared in the 2006 black comedy feature film Forgiving the Franklins under the name Khris Scaramanga.

Notable characters included from previous James Bond films include Francisco Scaramanga and Nick Nack from The Man with the Golden Gun, May Day and Max Zorin from A View to a Kill, Jaws from The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, Elektra King and Renard from The World Is Not Enough, Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob from Goldfinger, and Baron Samedi from Live and Let Die.

Set in an alternate timeline of the James Bond universe, the player takes the role of an ex-MI6 agent who is recruited by Auric Goldfinger, a member of a powerful unnamed criminal organization, to assassinate his rival Dr. No. Several other characters from the Bond film series make appearances throughout the game, including Pussy Galore, Oddjob, and Xenia Onatopp as well as Francisco Scaramanga, playing a Q type character with the voice and likeness of Christopher Lee, who played the same character in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun.

Scaramanga provides upgrades for the eye, starting with MRI vision.

Scaramanga provides the mechanical eye with a computer virus which he can use to overload the OMEN.

GoldenEye and Galore leave the Lair aboard Galore's chopper, and Scaramanga and Number One ( Ernst Stavro Blofeld ) later discuss what to do with GoldenEye, and decide to simply see what he does next before proceeding.

Francisco Scaramanga is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film and novel The Man with the Golden Gun.

Ian Fleming is reported to have named Francisco Scaramanga after George Ambrose Scaramanga, a fellow student at Eton with whom he reportedly shared a lasting rivalry.

Scaramanga said that he didn't mind, but that for superstitious reasons preferred the character not be killed.

By the time Bond finally encounters him in The Man with the Golden Gun, Scaramanga is a Caribbean gunman who often works for Fidel Castro's secret police, in addition to being engaged in other criminal enterprises such as drug-running into the United States in partnership with the KGB.

Bond's service has evaluated him as one of the finest shots in the world, and M authorizes Bond to assassinate Scaramanga — if he can.

Bond catches up with Scaramanga in Jamaica, where Bond pretends to be a freelance security officer, and Scaramanga hires him to guard an upcoming meeting of gangsters.

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