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Moonraker (1979) and Look Who's Talking (1989)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

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Moonraker Special Effects Work

Roger Moore would reflect on the experience of just the physical shoot at moonraker saying I spent eight months working on it and it was back breaking. The real problem with Bond films is they're so physically taxing. There's a moment again that pop pops up in the some kind of hero book that United artists discovered in the budget for moonraker a line that said special location facilities and the amount next to it was two million dollars. They got some fairly woolly answers before they were given the direct lay of the land on this, but you can imagine what someone like Albert Arbroccoli would have made of that. He'd met George Lucas's nascent ILM industrial light and magic

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