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- Moonrakers is the colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, a county in the West Country of England. Legend This name refers to a folk story set in the time when smuggling was a significant industry in rural England, with Wiltshire lying on the smugglers' secret routes between the south coast and customers in the centre of the country.
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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 rise of the science fiction genre in the wake of the Star Wars ...
Dec 26, 2020 · When an American aircraft transporting a Moonraker space shuttle is destroyed en route to the UK, leaving no trace of the space shuttle, James Bond is assigned to find the Moonraker.
Dec 19, 2023 · Moonraker stands as a testament to the craft of visual storytelling before CGI became the norm. The visual effects served the narrative, imbuing it with a sense of wonder and spectacle that echoed the societal fascination with space travel.
Oct 2, 2015 · Perhaps Fleming knew the answer about this and the real SPECTRE. And so with Moonraker, the most ridiculous and silly of 007 films, all the obligatory puns and innuendos so characteristic of the Roger Moore era serve to mask a rather profound secret of the overall deep-state agenda.
Apr 16, 2012 · The Movie When a Moonraker space shuttle on loan to the UK is hijacked during an RAF test flight, British secret service agent James Bond is assigned to investigate.
A space shuttle called the Moonraker, built by Drax Industries, is on its way to the U.K. when it is hijacked in mid-air and the crew of the 747 carrying it is killed. Bond immediately is called into action, and starts the investigation with Hugo Drax.
Due to the prohibitive taxation then in place in the UK, the decision to make the film in France resulted in Moonraker being the first James Bond film not to be based at Pinewood Studios, although the ‘007 Stage’ was used by the special effects crew to shoot all model work and the climactic space battle.
