<P> Drax's mansion, set in California, was actually filmed at the Château de Vaux - le - Vicomte, about 55 kilometres (34 mi) southeast of Paris, for the exteriors and Grand Salon . The remaining interiors, including some of the scenes with Corinne Defour and the drawing room, were filmed at the Château de Guermantes . </P> <P> Much of the film was shot in the cities of London, Paris, Venice, Palmdale, California, Port St. Lucie, Florida, and Rio de Janeiro . The production team had considered India and Nepal as a location in the film but on arriving at those places to investigate, they found that to write them into the script was inconceivable, particularly with time restrictions to do so . They decided on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, relatively early on, a city that Cubby Broccoli had visited on holiday, and a team was sent to that city in early 1978 to capture initial footage from the Carnival festival, which featured in the film . </P> <P> At the Rio de Janeiro location, many months later, Roger Moore arrived several days later than scheduled for shooting due to recurrent health problems and an attack of kidney stones that he had suffered while in France . After arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Moore was immediately whisked off the plane and went straight to hair and make - up work, before reboarding the plane, to film the sequence with him arriving as James Bond in the film . Sugarloaf Mountain was a prominent location in the film, and during filming of the cable car sequence in which Bond and Goodhead are attacked by Jaws during mid-air transportation high above Rio de Janeiro, the stuntman Richard Graydon slipped and narrowly avoided falling to his death . For the scene in which Jaws bites into the steel tramway cable with his teeth, the cable was actually made of liquorice, although Richard Kiel was still required to use his steel dentures . </P> <P> Iguazu Falls was a natural location depicted in the film, although as stated by Q in the film, the falls were intended to be located somewhere in the upper basin of the Amazon River rather than where the falls are actually located in the south of Brazil . The second unit had originally planned on sending an actual boat over the falls . However, on attempting to release it, the boat became firmly embedded on rocks near the edge . Despite a dangerous attempt by helicopter and rope ladder to retrieve it, the plan had to be abandoned, forcing the second unit to use a miniature at Pinewood instead . The exterior of Drax's pyramid headquarters in the Amazon rain forest near the falls was actually filmed at the Tikal Mayan ruins in Guatemala . The interior of the pyramid, however, was designed by Ken Adam at a French studio, in which he purposefully used a shiny coating to make the walls look plastic and false . All of the space centre scenes were shot at the Vehicle Assembly Building of the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, although some of the earlier scenes of the Moonraker assembly plant had been filmed on location at the Rockwell International manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California . </P>

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