When your opening stunt in The Spy Who Loved Me makes a statement, brings audiences to their feet in theaters, and sets the bar for movie stunts for a decade, what the hell do you do next? This is the challenge facing the team behind Moonraker.
Thankfully, they already had an idea…
The James Bond producers set out to do something that had never been done before in the realms of skydiving and filmmaking together.
I came across this video while researching something else and, well, to be honest Michael G. Wilson tells this story way better than I ever could.
Enjoy!
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