"Ian Fleming's Moonraker" was filmed in France on August 14, 1978. The producer gave up shooting the main scenes in the 007 studio of Pinewood Studios because of the high taxes in the United Kingdom. Only the interior of the cable car and the exterior of the space battle. It was filmed at Songlin Studio. The large-scale set designed by art director Ken Adam is the largest set ever built in the French film industry. All sets took 222,000 man-hours to complete, occupying three of the largest studios. The space station set was built in Eponay Studios. 220 technicians used 100 tons of metal, two tons of nails and 10,000 feet of wood. The fight scene between Bond and Zhang in the Venetian Glass Museum was taken at the Buren Studios, which was formerly an aircraft factory of the Luftwaffe during World War II. The consumption of sugar glass in this scene is the highest in film history.
The crew of the film has traveled to five cities: London, Paris, Venice, Palmdale and Rio de Janeiro. At first, the filmmakers considered going to India and Nepal for filming, but after field trips, they found that the script could not be written due to time constraints. Rio de Janeiro was selected in the early stages of film preparation. The crew sent people to Rio to film the Mardi Gras Carnival as early as 1978.
The Iguazu Falls in the film is a real natural landscape. The stunt crew planned to use a real boat above the waterfall to shoot, but the boat ran aground in the rocks. Although the crew used helicopters and rope ladders to venture out of the boat, they still couldn’t. Instead of giving up the plan, I had to replace it with a miniature model in the studio. Drax’s nest in the Amazon rainforest was filmed at the Tikal Mayan civilization site in Guatemala. All the space center scenes were shot in the assembly building of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the Moonraker space shuttle assembly workshop was in Rock, Palmdale, California. Photographed at the manufacturing plant of Well International.
To film the thrilling scene of Bond being launched by Jaws from a plane and falling from a high altitude without a parachute, the crew only took several weeks of planning and preparation. The entire skydiving scene was supervised by stunt director John Glenn and coordinated by stuntman. The stunt doubles took a total of 88 parachute jumps to complete successfully. The members of the American champion parachute team helped the stunt team make plans. In order to meet the plot needs, the technician specially designed a parachute bag with a thickness of only one inch for the film. The impression of wearing a parachute. The light Panavision camera used to shoot this skydiving scene was purchased from a pawn shop in Paris. After modification, the camera was finally fixed on the photographer's helmet. In order to film the end of the explosion of the space station, the visual effects staff shot the space station model with a shotgun
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