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[3] [4] The game's four levels are loosely based on missions from James Bond films: [3] Diamonds are Forever (1971): The player rescues Tiffany Case from an oil rig. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977): The player destroys an underwater laboratory. Moonraker (1979): The player destroys satellites.
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 .
The only noticeable differences between the novelization and the screenplay for Moonraker is that there is no mention of Dolly, Jaws' girlfriend, and his characterisation stays true to Wood's description as being a mute. In addition, at the conclusion of the Venetian canal chase sequence, Bond's gondola does not sprout a flotation device and ...
Drax, real name Graf Hugo von der Drache, is a "megalomaniac German Nazi who masquerades as an English gentleman", [4] while his assistant, Krebs, bears the same name as Adolf Hitler's last Chief of Staff. [5] In using a German as the novel's main enemy, "Fleming ... exploits another British cultural antipathy of the 1950s.
A tongue-in-cheek work, published by the same company that issued the Bond novels, The Book of Bond is a manual for prospective agents on how to live like Agent 007, illustrated with examples taken from the Fleming canon. The first edition of this book was published with a false slipcover printed with the title The Bible to be Read as ...
Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming.
Moonraker is the soundtrack for the eleventh James Bond film of the same name. [2] Moonraker was the third of the three Bond films for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey. Frank Sinatra was considered for the vocals, before Johnny Mathis was approached and offered the opportunity. Mathis was unhappy about the song and withdrew ...
Following the death of Ian Fleming on 12 August 1964, [1] [2] the rights to the Bond novels were held by Glidrose Publications (now Ian Fleming Publications). After Glidrose released the remaining Fleming works—The Man with the Golden Gun [3] and Octopussy and The Living Daylights [4] —they decided to commission a sequel in order to retain rights in the Bond product. [5]