wild script – Moonraker

 

In Tom Mankiewicz`s discarded treatment for the Bond XI:

-India and Japan were locations

-the villainess had a bow and arrow and was known as The Archer

-the space shuttle was to have been stored in the Himalayas

-the Acrojet stunt used in Octopussy was to have first appeared here and both Bond and Holly were to have their own jets; it was subsequently replaced by the Amazon riverboat chase

-the Eiffel tower scene eventually used in AVTAK was also in an earlier draft and the poison butterfly trick used by Mayday in AVTAK first showed up in early Moonraker drafts

-in a scene that was shot, but later cut, Drax meets 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