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More About the Movie
- 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.
Making the Movie
Lewis Gilbert
English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)[1] and Moonraker (1979).
Although known for character dramas, Gilbert directed three of the James Bond films.He turned down the opportunity to direct On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.[13] After the high production costs of Moonraker and the financial failure of Michael Cimino‘s Heaven’s Gate, United Artists was unable to afford to hire him to direct the next Bond film For Your Eyes Only.





Derick meddings
A lot of the shots in space teh special effects were done via double exposure one shot 80 times wind back
Since N.A.S.A.’s Space Shuttle program had not been launched, Derek Meddings and his miniatures team had to create the rocket launch footage without any reference. Shuttle models attached to bottle rockets and signal flares were used for take-off, and the smoke trail was created with salt that fell from the models.
The climactic scenes of the space station disintegrating were created by Meddings and other members of the special effects team shooting the miniature model with shotguns
The production in this film was epic!
Much of the film was shot in the cities of
- London,
- Paris,
- Venice,
- Palmdale, California,
- Port St. Lucie, Florida,
- and Rio de Janeiro.
The unit traveled over 100,000 miles to
• 7 countries and
• 3 continents
and used
• 4 studios
• 32 boats,
• 5 helicopters and
• 80 individual transport vehicles.
A frantic pace of production ensued to make the film’s release schedule. The script was built around decided upon exotic locations and action sequences. As with most Bond films, the script was constantly changing as production progressed.
The production values are amazing, featuring exotic real world locations.




Production began on 14 August 1978. The main shooting was switched from the usual 007 Stage at the Pinewood Studios to France, because of the high taxation in Britain at the time.
Only the cable car interiors and space battle exteriors were filmed at Pinewood.
The massive sets designed by Ken Adam were the largest ever constructed in France and required more than 222,000 man-hours to construct (roughly 1,000 hours by each of the crew, on average).
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Welcome Space Force recruit! Congrats on surviving our rigorous recruitment process!
Unfortunately we may not survive this new depopulation bid by yet another hellbent for evil eugenicist billionaire.
The insidious plans have been uncovered by MI6 and CIA field operatives.
We’ve uncovered Jeffrey Epstein’s plan to populate the world with his breeding stock after everybody is killed off by chemicals and gmo.
Get suited up as we traverse the globe and explore lavish locations, laugh at one liners that Anrold Scharzeneggar couldn’t dream of (until he went Commando and had Total Recall ;)), and push the boundaries of political correctness to secret space stations and beyond.
Join us as we present perhaps the most outlandish James Bond extravaganza of them all, Moonraker.
This 1979 film has rich production values, superb set design, truly beautiful locations, and amazing special effects.
This abundantly entertaining movie package is also going to have us discussing depopulation plans and goals, secret space programs, breakaway civilizations, eugenics, and even a little bit of the Mandela effect thrown in.
Starring Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michaeal Lonsdale, and Richard Kiel.
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli
Cinematography by Jean Tournier
Music by John Barry
Based on the novel by Ian Fleming
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