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- The scene where Bond is riding to M's temporary headquaters in a South American hacienda is accompanied by Elmer Bernstein's theme from The Magnificent Seven.
- Drax' Venice laboratory has an electronic lock on it.The sequence which unlocks the door is the hailing tune from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
- Despite the previous 007 film telling us that James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only, producer Broccoli choose Moonraker as the next installment after the success of Star Wars.
- The role of Drax was originally offered to James Mason.
- Lois Chiles had originally been offered the role of Anya in The Spy Who Loved Me, but turned down the part when she decided to take temporary retirement. She got the role of Mary Goodhead by chance when she was given the seat next to Lewis Gilbert (II) on a flight.
- Actor Richard Kiel has only one line of dialogue in his two Bond appearances as "Jaws" (Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). He says,"Well, here's to us" near the end of this film.
- According to writer Tom Mankiewicz there was a scene featuring Drax meeting his co-financiers in the Amazon lair; they use the room located just below the space shuttle launch pad that Bond and Holly later escape from. This scene was shot but later cut out.
- Some portions of the Moonraker assembly plant were filmed on location at the Rockwell International manufacturing facilities in Palmdale, California, and at the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral, Florida."
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