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A space shuttle is stolen enroute to London and M sends James Bond out to apologize to the shuttle creator, billionaire Hugo Drax. While visiting Drax's estate, several attempts are made on Bond's life, making Drax the number one suspect. Bond also meets Dr. Holly Goodhead, a N.A.S.A. scientist, who is also a C.I.A. Agent investigating Drax. Their investigations lead Bond to discover a plot to murder the world's population so that Drax can repopulate the planet in his image. The chase takes Bond all over the world, California, Brazil, the Amazon James, and, finally, to Drax's huge space-city over the Earth. Drax, meanwhile, has hired a old friend of Bond to take care of any problems, the steel-toothed killer Jaws.
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- Co-production : Les Artistes Associés
- Foreign production company : Eon Productions
- French distribution : Les Artistes Associés
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- Screenwriters : Christopher Wood, Ian Lancaster Fleming
- Director of Photography : Jean Tournier
- Music Composer : John Barry
- Assistant directors : Meyer Berreby, John Glen
- Editor : John Glen
- Costume designer : Jacques Fonteray
- Sound assistants : Gérard De Lagarde, Colin Miller, Nigel Galt, Jean Labourel
- Assistant Operators : Jacques-René Strasser, Pierre Boffety
- Camera operators : Guy Delattre, Michel Deloire, Jacques Renoir
- Production managers : Robert Saussier, Jean-Pierre Spiri-Mercanton, Roberto Bakker, Terence Churcher
- Sound editor : Catherine Kelber
- Foley artist : Jean-Pierre Lelong
- Stunt performers : Michel Berreur, Daniel Breton, Claude Carliez, Guy Di Rigo
- Casting : Margot Capelier
- Artistic Director : Max Douy
- Special Effects : René Albouze
- Sound mixers : Daniel Brisseau, Nic Le Messurier
- Still Photographer : Patrick Morin
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Action , Adventure, Science fiction , Thriller
- Production language : English, Italian
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Great Britain, France)
- Production year : 1979
- French release : 10/10/1979
- Runtime : 2 h 6 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 49675
- Visa issue date : 23/07/1979
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.35
- Audio format : Dolby
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Moonraker (1979) is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series, 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 Clery, and Richard Kiel. Bond investigates the theft of a space shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, and the Amazon rain forest, and finally into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and to re-create humanity with a master race.
Moonraker was intended by its creator Ian Fleming to become a film even before he completed the novel in 1954, since he based it on a manuscript he had written even earlier. The film producers had originally intended to do Moonraker in 1973 with Roger Moore making his debut as Bond, but it was put on hold and not released until 1979, coinciding with the rise of the science fiction genre in the wake of the Star Wars phenomenon. Budgetary issues caused the film to be primarily shot in France, with locations also in Italy, Brazil, Guatemala and the United States. The soundstages of Pinewood Studios in England, a traditional location for the series, were only used by the special effects team.
Moonraker was noted for its high production cost, spending almost twice as much money as predecessor The Spy Who Loved Me, and it received some very negative reviews, film critic Danny Peary wrote “The worst James Bond film to date.. the filmmakers also have the gall to set the finale in outer space and stage a battle right out of Star Wars.” However, the film eventually became the highest grossing film of the series with $210,308,099 worldwide, a record that stood until 1995's GoldenEye and the film's visuals were praised, with Derek Meddings being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
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