History Trivia / Moonraker

* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: Creator/MichaelLonsdale recalled Drax's Dobemans:

* CaliforniaDoubling: A lot of the film was shot in UsefulNotes/{{France}}, due to tax issues, while no scene takes place in France.
** Weird inversion: Bond is flown to Drax's base in California (aerial plates shot in the US) and lands on a castle which Drax ordered to be brought from France, stone by stone. It was all shot in and around an actual French 17th century castle, Vaux-le-Vicomte.
** The scene where Bond visits Drax Industries (in California, still) was shot at the Georges Pompidou/Beaubourg Center in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}.
** Other Drax Industries scenes where shot at the biggest French studios available, in Billancourt, Epinay and Boulogne around Paris, including the centrifuge in which 007 is trapped. Ditto with the large Creator/KenAdam sets of Drax's base in UsefulNotes/TheAmazonRainforest.

** Other Drax Industries scenes where shot at the biggest French studios available, in Billancourt, Epinay and Boulogne around Paris, including the centrifuge in which 007 is trapped. Ditto with the large Creator/KenAdam sets of Drax's Amazonian jungle base.

* InternationalCoproduction: The film was co-produced by Les Artistes Associés, the French branch of Creator/UnitedArtists, in addition to being filmed partly in France (for tax and budget reasons according to screenwriter Christopher Wood). As such, the actor playing the BigBad (Creator/MichaelLonsdale) and many of the extras and stuntmen (including Claude Carliez, Creator/GuyDelorme and most of the models who played Drax's "perfect race" women) were French.

* BTeamSequel: Richard Maibaum didn't write the script, as the producers preferred to go solely with Christopher Wood. Instead, Maibaum worked on the Bond spoof, ''S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert''.

* RecycledScript: The film is very much a rehash of its immediate predecessor, ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', only with a climax that takes place [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] instead of underwater. Several scenes and plot beats, including the villain's EvilPlan, are pretty much the same.

* CastTheExpert: Toshiro Suga (Chang) was an aikido instructor and co-producer Michael G. Wilson was one of his pupils. He put his martial arts knowledge to goo use in the role.

* TheOtherMarty: Brazilian actress Adele Fátima was cast as Manuela, and she shot some minor scenes with Creator/RogerMoore around Sugar Loaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro. She was later recast by Emily Bolton, with her own scenes deleted from the final cut.

* ReferencedBy: In ''Film/BlackWidow2021'', Natasha watches the movie on television. Both feature a physically-weak BigBad with an ImplacableMan henchman and [[spoiler:a fortress above the earth]].

* LoopingLines: French actress Corinne Clery, known for Just Jaeckin's ''The Story of O'', was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl, in what was her last dubbing job for any film, as well as for any Bond film. She also dubbed the air hostess in the pre-titles sequence.

* CreatorsPest: Christopher Wood revealed that Jaws' love interest Dolly wasn't his idea and that he hated her. He also wasn't keen on Corinne.

* BTeamSequel: Richard Maibaum didn't write the script, as the producers preferred to go with Christopher Wood. Instead, he worked on the Bond spoof, ''S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert''.

* RecycledScript: The film is very much a rehash of ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', only [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] instead of underwater. Several scenes and plot beats, including the villain's EvilPlan, are pretty much the same.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Before he orders her and Bond to be executed, Drax tells Holly [[FalseReassurance "Your desire to become America's first woman in space will shortly be fulfilled"]], which points itself to pre-1983, when Sally Ride became the first female American astronaut.
** An inversion (though only at the time of its release): at the time ''Moonraker'' was made, NASA was intending to launch its first space shuttle in 1979, which would have made the film very timely. Unfortunately, NASA had to delay the launch for two years, rendering the film unexpectedly something that was before its time. Even more so now that the Space Shuttle has been retired as of 2011; in this film it is headlined and touted as the pinnacle of human spaceflight, with none of its viable replacements yet ready to succeed it.

** Other Drax Industries scenes where shot at the biggest French studios available, in Billancourt, Epinay and Boulogne, including the centrifuge in which 007 is trapped. Ditto with the large Creator/KenAdam sets of Drax's Amazonian jungle base.

* InternationalCoproduction: The film was co-produced by Les Artistes Associés, the French branch of Creator/UnitedArtists, in addition to being filmed partly in France (for budget reasons according to screenwriter Christopher Wood). As such, many of the extras and stuntmen (including Claude Carliez, Creator/GuyDelorme and most of the models who played Drax's "perfect race" women) were French.

** While certainly not the Bond film of which he's most ashamed of (that would be ''Film/AViewToAKill''), Creator/RogerMoore often made fun of himself and this movie for the absurdity of the plot. When he criticized ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', he said "and that's coming from me, the first Bond in space".

* CastTheExpert: Toshiro Suga (Chang) was an aikido instructor and co-producer Michael G. Wilson was one of his pupils.

* CaliforniaDoubling: A lot of the film was shot in France, due to tax issues, while no scene takes place in France.
** Weird inversion: Bond is flown to Drax's base in California (aerial plates shot in the US) and lands on a castle which Drax ordered to be brought from UsefulNotes/{{France}}, stone by stone. It was all shot in and around an actual French 17th century castle, Vaux-le-Vicomte.