I’d say Moonraker, which might be my favourite of the first books, but the movie adaptation keeps little more than the title and changes pretty much everything else (and as a result ends up being quite bad, receiving noticeably lukewarm reviews and nowadays often appearing in lists of worst Bond films ever).
I’d say Moonraker, which might be my favourite of the first books, but the movie adaptation keeps little more than the title and changes pretty much everything else (and as a result ends up being quite bad, receiving noticeably lukewarm reviews and nowadays often appearing in lists of worst Bond films ever).
Yeah, IIRC it was the first Bond made after Star Wars and somebody must have gone “Hey, this one has ‘Moon’ in the title!”
When they inevitably reboot Bond, it would be cool to see period adaptations of all the Fleming novels. The Connery films come the closest.
That’d be very cool, and it’d make me very happy if they started with making a seriously good adaptation of Moonraker.
Just looked it up, and the titular Moonraker was changed from a missile to a space shuttle.