Producer of Bond Film Denies Mexico Changed Script The Associated Press
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The producers of the new Bond movie have denied they gave Mexico's government a licence to kill parts of the script.Hacked emails are said to show changes were made in return for tax incentives worth millions. Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports from Mexico City. (Al Jazeera)

The producer of the new James Bond thriller "Spectre" denies that the script was changed to get incentives in Mexico.

Earlier, the website Tax Analysts said leaked emails indicated that Mexico made suggestions on the nationality of an actress and the villain, the villain's intended victim and some film shots. Implicitly, Mexico's incentives for the film were at stake, it said.

Producer Michael G. Wilson said Wednesday: "There is nothing in the script that we hadn't had before. The villain was always an Italian ... we already shot that in Rome."

Asked about Mexico's purported insistence on a Mexican actress in a role known as "Estrella," Wilson said, "We always had a Mexican actress playing this part." The film has cast Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman in the role.

Officials in Mexico City have declined to comment on possible incentives offered on the movie, which is scheduled to begin its Mexico filming Thursday.

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