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*Moonraker* is a 1979 English-language film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Ian Fleming, based on the work *Moonraker*. The cast includes Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles, and Richard Kiel. Production was handled by Eon Productions and United Artists, with John Glen serving as film editor and Jean Tournier as director of photography. The film’s music was composed by John Barry and Hal David.
The movie is categorized as an adventure, spy, action, and speculative fiction film, with spaceflight as its main subject. It was filmed in Guatemala, Rio de Janeiro, California, and Florida, while narrative scenes take place in Iguaçu Falls, Venice, Rio de Janeiro, and California. The production originated from France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.
*Moonraker* has a runtime of 126 minutes and was released on June 26, 1979. It received a 6.3 rating on IMDb and a 6.184 average on TMDb. The film was distributed by Netflix and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
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6.2After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
Cast
- Roger Moore as James Bond
- Lois Chiles as Dr. Holly Goodhead
- Michael Lonsdale as Hugo Drax
- Richard Kiel as Jaws
- Corinne Cléry as Corinne Dufour
- Bernard Lee as M
Themes
- space marine
- based on novel or book
- venice, italy
- mass murder
- rio de janeiro
- space suit
- marcus square
- space battle
- secret base
- gondola
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Encyclopedic overview
Moonraker is a 1979 spy-fi film, the eleventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry and Richard Kiel. In the film, Bond investigates the vanishing of a Space Shuttle orbiter, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with astronaut Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the mystery from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon rainforest, and finally into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and repopulate humanity with a master race.
The story was intended by author Ian Fleming to become a film even before he completed the novel in 1954; he based it on a screenplay manuscript he had devised earlier. The film's producers had originally intended to make For Your Eyes Only, but chose Moonraker as a result of the resurgence of the science fiction genre, following the success of Star Wars, and NASA's concurrent test flights of the Space Shuttle. Budgetary issues led to the film being shot primarily in France; other locations included Italy, Brazil, Guatemala and the United States. The soundstages of Pinewood Studios in England, traditionally used for the series, were only used by the special effects team.
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