Moonraker (1979)

• Budget 36 million  
  • 141 million in adjusted 
• World Box office 210 million 
  • 827 million today
  • 83 Million tickets sold
• No Time to Die (2021 $)
  • Budget  $351 million
  • $760 million
  • 72 million tickets

The reason this movie has little in common with the novel is that the book was deemed far too dated to be adapted in 1979.
The novel and this movie are two entirely different stories that have nothing in common,
Ian Fleming’s novel Moonraker was published in 1955. It was the third James Bond book, and has almost nothing in common with the movie. The novel tells the story of Hugo Drax, an ex Nazi who wants to destroy London with a Moonraker missile armed with a nuclear warhead. The novel is widely considered to be one of the best James Bond stories. In the movie Drax is not a Nazi, but retains the “master race” ideology.

Drax has a plan for a master race in the film, but in the novel actually had been a Nazi (unbeknownst to the British). The dramatic scene of Bond and his female companion being trapped in an exhaust duct under a rocket where they are nearly burned to death also appears in the film. Otherwise the film is more in keeping with contemporary trends in science fiction

Ian Fleming had originally intended the novel, published in 1955, to be made into a film even before he began writing it. A part of the novel was thus based on an original idea for a screenplay which had been on his mind for years.[9] Fleming first pitched the novel to Hungarian-British film producer Alexander Korda, who had expressed interest in purchasing the rights to Live and Let Die

To really confuse things the movie was so different from the book that the filmès screenwriter novelised the film called James bond and moonraker

Moonraker ended up being the last James Bond novel to receive a screen adaptation until Casino Royale in 2006.