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An ad in Variety announces that MOONRAKER is the next James Bond film (and not "For Your Eyes Only", as promised at the end of TSWLM).

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The early Moonraker logo and artwork appear on this "one-stop" teaser.

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The Eon/Moonraker letterhead gives us a first look at the new logo.

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The stunning Advance A poster is one of my all time favorite Bond posters.

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An Advance B poster takes it a step further...

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The US one sheet promises a mega-Bond experience indeed (and the return of Jaws!)

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A second style one sheet is introduced during the film's record breaking run.

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Yet a third style US one-sheet, the very rare

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The Thai poster uses some unique original art.

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Interestingly enough, the unused Moonraker logo and art appears on the U.S. novelization.

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Moonraker comes to T.V...

[PaulZ108]

Moonraker had one of the best ad campaigns of the Moore era IMO. I think I like the Thai poster best, followed by the second one-sheet.

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All that wonderful art to choose from, and this is what we get when Moonraker comes to DVD.

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Originally posted by PaulZ108
Moonraker had one of the best ad campaigns of the Moore era IMO.

Gotta agree with you on that, PaulZ. Moonraker was the most aggressively promoted Bond film since Thunderball. Moonraker also had an enormous amount of tie-in material. It was treated as an event Bond picture (and certainly performed as such at the box office).

[Blue Eyes]

You know, not having seen it before now, I'm a real sucker for the Eon letterhead. There's something really impressive about the shuttle zooming towards the viewer. I think a full scale version of that would have made an awesome teaser.

But the Moore tuxedo/spacesuit teaser is one of the best posters of all the Bond films.

[Blofeld's Cat]

The Spy Who Loved Me may be my all time favourite Bond movie, but the graphics and posterwork for Moonraker are definitely the best of all the Bonds to date, with the Advance A poster being, by far, my most favourite.

I've never seen the Moore pose on the DVD before, with him in a spacesuit, holding a gun (not a raygun) to his shoulder. I wonder when that would've been done as it's never appeared, to my knowledge anyway, in any other promotion of Moonraker?

[rafterman]

I actually like the DVD covers.....especially the Moonraker font...

[Blue Eyes]

Originally posted by Blofeld's Cat
I've never seen the Moore pose on the DVD before, with him in a spacesuit, holding a gun (not a raygun) to his shoulder. I wonder when that would've been done as it's never appeared, to my knowledge anyway, in any other promotion of Moonraker?[/FONT][/B] [/B]

It's quite possible that the image is a composite, made using a picture of Moore from another film and then 'pasted' onto the body etc...

[Hardyboy]

I wonder if the astronaut suit in the Advance A poster represents a discarded part of the script. In Wood's novelization, Bond actually puts on a spacesuit and goes outside Drax's space station to disable the laser cannon. It would have made for a good moment on the screen.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Originally posted by Blue Eyes


It's quite possible that the image is a composite, made using a picture of Moore from another film and then 'pasted' onto the body etc...

Yes, I think so. This method is used heavily on the Connery video covers, as well, I think. Anyway, My favourites out of those are the Thai poster and the US one-sheet. The second style one-sheet is also quite nice.

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I just realized I omitted the rather excellent Jeff Marshall special edition Moonraker poster. Sorry, Jeff.

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Glad to see everyone likes the Thai poster...because that's the poster I just won on eBay. My plan is to have Richard Kiel and Lois Chiles sign it at the upcoming BCW then get it framed professionally. I have a feeling this could become one of my favorite Bond pieces.

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Originally posted by Blofeld's Cat
[I've never seen the Moore pose on the DVD before, with him in a spacesuit, holding a gun (not a raygun) to his shoulder. I wonder when that would've been done as it's never appeared, to my knowledge anyway, in any other promotion of Moonraker?[/FONT] [/B]

I have seen a pic of Moore in the full spacesuit. It's not from the movie, it's a publicity shot. If I can track it down I'll post it here.

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Bingo...

[M_Balje]

The Soundtrack of "Moonraker"

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I think I prefer the US one sheet

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A great overview of the Moonraker campaign. Some of the other US posters included this:

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In the same montage style wass this other US poster:

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Moonraker even appeared on a double bill with the previous James Bond movie TSWLM....