![]() Drax's personal pilot, Corinne Dufour, helps Bond find blueprints for a glass vial made in Venice Drax discovers her involvement and has her killed by his pet dogs. Holly Goodhead, an astronaut, and survives an assassination attempt while inside a centrifuge chamber. At the Drax Industries spaceplane-manufacturing complex in California, Bond meets the owner of the company, Hugo Drax, and his henchman Chang. He survives by stealing a parachute from the pilot, while Jaws lands on a trapeze net within a circus tent. En route to England, Bond is attacked and pushed out of an aeroplane by the mercenary assassin Jaws. M, head of MI6, assigns James Bond, Agent 007, to investigate. The carrier is destroyed but no wreckage of the shuttle is found. Plot Ī Drax Industries Moonraker Space Shuttle on loan to the United Kingdom is hijacked in midair while on a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. He then died in January 1981 before any of M's scenes could be filmed. Lee was scheduled to reprise his role in For Your Eyes Only, but was admitted to hospital in November 1980, diagnosed with stomach cancer. This was Bernard Lee's final outing as M. However, the film's visuals were praised, with Derek Meddings being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and it eventually became the highest-grossing film of the series at the time with $210.3 million worldwide, a record that stood until 1995's GoldenEye. Moonraker had a high production cost of $34 million, more than twice as much as The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and it received mixed reviews. The soundstages of Pinewood Studios in England, traditionally used for the series, were only used by the special effects team. Budgetary issues led to the film being shot primarily in France other locations included Italy, Brazil, Guatemala and the United States. The film's producers had originally intended to make For Your Eyes Only, but chose Moonraker owing to the rise of the science fiction genre in the wake of the Star Wars phenomenon. 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. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail 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 to recreate humanity with a master race. Bond investigates the theft of a Space Shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. 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. 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.
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