Moonraker (1979)

Why Ian Fleming not authorize the producers of 007 films to film the books The Spy Who Love Me and Moonraker?

The films The Spy Who Love Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) is not adaptations of the homonymous books, the scripts are original stories. Why the reason for this? I don’t understand!

Due to the reactions by critics and fans, Fleming was not happy with the book, The Spy Who Love Me and consequently only gave permission for the title to be used when he sold the film rights to Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli. In 1977 the title was used for the tenth film in the EON Productions series. It was the third to star Roger Moore as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond. Per Fleming’s wish the film only uses the title and is therefore considered the first wholly original Bond film. The film was novelised the same year by screenwriter Christopher Wood and the resulting book was the first novelisation of a Bond film. To avoid confusion with Fleming’s novel, the book was named James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me.

As with several previous Bond films, the story from Ian Fleming’s novel “Moonraker” is almost entirely dispensed with, here in favour of a film more in keeping with the era of science fiction. Indeed, at the end of the preceding The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only had been named as the title for the next film, but Moonraker was substituted instead

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