 This is the first and only ever filmed version of the  Ian Fleming (I) (qv) novel "Moonraker" and is not a remake of the  1958 film _Moonraker, The (1958)_ (qv) which is an entirely  different story and a period piece. An alleged 1956 version of  "Moonraker" was reported to have been discovered in 2004 but this  was an April Fool Days hoax. In the joke, Dirk Bogarde (qv) was  James Bond, Orson Welles (qv) was Hugo Drax and  Peter Lorre (I) (qv) was a henchman.