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Nov 10, 2020 · The Spy Who Loved Me is keeping all James Bond’s secrets safe tonight – unless you unpick them! by Richard Hiron. November 10th, 2020. United Artists. By the mid-1970s, the Bond...
- Steven Spielberg Was Considered to Direct
- The Opening Sequence Was Conceived For Another Bond Film
- It Was The Most Expensive Bond Film at The Time
- Barbara Bach Was Cast Just 4 Days Before Filming
- Jaws’ Metal Teeth Left Richard Kiel in Agony
- Albert R. Broccoli Fed The Cast & Crew Himself
- The Supertanker Set Is The Largest Soundstage in Europe
- Stanley Kubrick Helped with The Lighting in The Supertanker Scene
- Jaws Was Supposed to Die at The End
- Carly Simon’s Theme Song Broke Bond Tradition
At the time The Spy Who Loved Me was in development, lifelong Bond fan Steven Spielberg was working on a little shark movie called Jaws. The 007 producers considered hiring Spielberg to direct The Spy Who Loved Me, but waited to see how Jawswould perform at the box office before making a firm offer. Ironically, Jaws was so popular – becoming the hi...
The opening sequence of The Spy Who Loved Meis one of the best in the franchise, as Bond skis off the edge of a cliff before opening up a Union Jack parachute on the way down. RELATED: James Bond: The 10 Best Opening Action Sequences, Ranked This was initially conceived for George Lazenby’s Bond to do in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, but the mon...
The negative reviews met by The Man with the Golden Gun were expected to either kill the franchise or at least put financial restrictions on its future. But instead, producer Albert R. Broccoli felt confident enough to invest $13.5 million into production of The Spy Who Loved Me, which made it the most expensive Bond movie at the time. Currently, t...
When she went in to audition for The Spy Who Loved Me, Barbara Bach had no idea that securing the female lead role was even a possibility. In fact, she was just hoping to get a minor acting part. Much to her surprise, Bach was cast as main Bond Girl and Russian spy Anya Amasova just four days before shooting started. In an interview about her role,...
Whenever 7’2” actor Richard Kiel was shooting his scenes as Jaws, he couldn’t keep the metal teeth in his mouth for more than about 30 seconds because wearing them caused him intense pain. The character required him to put on goofy facial expressions, which were at odds with the pain he was going through. The teeth were designed by Katharina Kubric...
While they were shooting in Egypt, the cast and crew of The Spy Who Loved Mewere unhappy with the local cuisine. So, producer Albert R. Broccoli (above, center) had a bunch of their favorite foods flown in from England. However, someone forgot to switch on the freezer, so the food was spoiled when it arrived. Broccoli then sprung into action. He dr...
Production designer Ken Adam spent nearly $2 million of The Spy Who Loved Me’s $13.5 budget on construction of what would become the largest soundstage in all of Europe. The soundstage used for the Liparus supertanker was 336 feet by 139 feet by 44 feet, and has a capacity of a whopping 1.2 million gallons. This stage has since been named the “Albe...
During production of The Spy Who Loved Me, cinematographer Claude Renoir’s eyesight was slipping. The set for the supertanker scene was so huge that Renoir couldn’t see from one end to the other, so he couldn’t oversee the lighting of the scene. RELATED: 007: 5 Directors Who Almost Helmed A Bond Movie (& 5 Who Should) Production designer turned to ...
In the original script for The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws died at the end. However, the producers changed it so that he would survive so he could be brought back for future sequels. Two versions of the ending were shot, so Richard Kiel didn’t know if his character survived until the premiere. This turned out to be a smart move, as Jaws went on to becom...
Going against long-time franchise tradition, Carly Simon’s theme song from The Spy Who Loved Me, “Nobody Does It Better,” was not named after the movie it was featured in. However, the phrase “the spy who loved me” does appear in the lyrics. Although Simon provided the vocals, she didn’t write the song. Marvin Hamlisch wrote the music, while Carole...
The Spy Who Loved Me was both the 10th official series James Bond movie produced and the 10th Ian Fleming James Bond novel written. Harry Saltzman sold his interest in James Bond during December 1975 while this movie was in pre-production.
9 quotes from The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10): ‘Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.’
The Spy Who Loved Me is a 1977 spy film, the tenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. The film co-stars Barbara Bach and Curt Jürgens and was directed by Lewis Gilbert.
Summary. Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making – a victim of circumstance with a wounded heart. Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land.
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The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert with the screenplay being penned by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum.
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