Christopher Walken
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Christopher Walken playing Max Zorin

Born in Queens, New York, USA on 31st March 1943

Starred In A View To A Kill (1985)

film information

Max Zorin played by Christopher Walken is the main villain of A View To A Kill. A leading French Industrialist in charge of Zorin Industries, Zorin breaks his ties as a KGB agent to pursue his own desires for domination – Project Main Strike.

Zorin plans to cause a series of devastating earthquakes along various fault lines in California submerging Silicon Valley forever. With a number of business partners (having to pay a very large sum of money for the privilege), Zorin would then gain a world monopoly in computer microchips.

Visiting his château in France whilst Zorin holds his annual horse sale, Bond and Sir Godfrey Tibbett investigate Zorin’s connections with the KGB. When May Day identifies Bond as the man at the Eiffel Tower, Zorin makes a number of attempts to kill Bond, unsuccessfully (although not known by Zorin at this time). After overhearing a conversation at Zorin’s oil pumping station courtesy of Pola Invanova, Bond learns Zorin is planning something in the form of Project Main Strike, but does not know the details.

Zorin discovers Bond is still alive when he catches him and Stacey Sutton at City Hall trying to find out more information about his plans. After defying another murder attempt, Bond escapes with Stacey Sutton. Setting everything in place for Project Main Strike to go ahead in an abandoned silver mine, Zorin and Scarpine shoot all their employees and take to the air in Zorin’s Airships. After stopping Zorin’s plan, Bond hangs onto the airships mooring rope after Zorin kidnaps Stacey Sutton. In a great sequence, Bond and Zorin fight atop the Golden Gate Bridge where Zorin underestimates Bonds skill, consequently paying the price when Zorin falls to his death a long way below.

character information

Max Zorin is born from experiments conducted in Nazi concentration camps, run by Dr Carl Mortner in an attempt to produce super-intelligent offspring by giving the mother steroids whilst pregnant. While few children survived, the side effects of the experiment were that the children were psychotic, Max Zorin no exception. A KGB agent providing intelligence and stealing technology from the Americans, Zorin breaks ties with the Russians to pursue his own dreams of domination in Project Main Strike. A ruthless merciless businessman, Zorin eliminates anyone who doesn’t agree with him or gets in his way with the help of girlfriend and fellow assassin May Day. §