Carole Bouquet, Roger Moore, Lynn-Holly Johnson in For Your Eyes Only (Getty Images)“No one was more surprised than me to be asked to direct For Your Eyes Only” – John GlenJames Bond film For Your Eyes Only, starring Roger Moore in his fifth outing as 007, celebrates its 40th anniversary this week, and it was breaking new ground for Ian Fleming’s famous super spy.Released in 1981, it was the first Bond film of the Eighties. The first with a new director who went on to hold the longest tenure helming Bond; the first from a newly promoted production designer, and the first to consciously divert from the story excesses of three decades of 007 supremacy.Read more: Terminally ill James Bond fan appeals to see new filmWe spoke with director John Glen and actors Lynn-Holly Johnson, John Moreno, and Jack Klaff who were happy to look back on the film’s ruby anniversary, and the larger than life presence of Sir Roger Moore.Mission divertedIn the closing credits of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), it announced that James Bond would return in For Your Eyes Only, 1979’s next Bond film. However, a man called George Lucas, an early Broccoli in-road into the NASA Space Shuttle programme and a game-changing film called Star Wars revised Bond’s next mission.Roger Moore and Lois Chiles on the set of Moonraker. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)Whilst the resulting 1979 adventure Moonraker was a massive hit, Bond’s studio partner United Artists had since suffered major losses with the… Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK
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‘For Your Eyes Only’ at 40: ‘Roger Moore told an awful lot of really, really filthy jokes’ (exclusive)
