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For the original short story collection that inspired the film, see Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Cuba [ ] Wilner, Norman. "Rating the Spy Game". MSN. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008 . Retrieved 27 June 2009.

Onto West Germany. The train fight is really good. Yes, better than Skyfall’s because we know the combatants and what’s at stake. I love that Gobinda fights with a scimitar. Because of course he does. Also note how distinctive Gobinda and Twin 1 are, both as characters and visually. A far cry from the anonymous henchmen/assassins Craig endlessly battles. Octopussyteaches few lessons but one lingers: it’s very easy to balance atop a speeding train.

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Two of the short stories were adapted for publication in comic-strip format, which were published daily in the Daily Express newspaper and syndicated worldwide. The Living Daylights ran from 12 September to 12 November 1966, adapted by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak; the same pair also worked on Octopussy, which ran from 14 November 1966 to 27 May 1967. [29] The story lines for the strips were altered from the original Fleming version to ensure that they contained a glamorous reason for being Bond involved and to include Bond in action. [30] The strips were reprinted by Titan Books in 1988 [29] and then again in The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 2, published in 2011. [31] Octopussy (1983)

Deep into the film the Faberge egg turns into a nuclear bomb. Not literally but that’s certainly how it felt. The egg goes from being vitally important to utterly irrelevant and the bomb appears instead. Where from? Um, not entirely sure. In Octopussy, Bond is assigned the task of following a megalomaniacal Soviet general ( Steven Berkoff) who is stealing jewellery and art objects from the Kremlin art repository. This leads Bond to a wealthy exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan ( Louis Jourdan), and his associate, Octopussy ( Maud Adams), and the discovery of a plot to force disarmament in Western Europe with the use of a nuclear weapon.Octopussy then takes a sinister turn as a clown – actually 009 (played by stuntman Andy Bradford) – is hunted and murdered by the knife-throwing twins (David and Anthony Meyer). The scene has a darker edge than the film is generally remembered for. Indeed, between this and the openings of The Living Daylights and A View To A Kill – which bump off 004 and 003 respectively – Glen killed more Double-Os than any Bond villain.

The pre-title sequence was originally to take place in Moonraker (along with the concept of twin knife-throwing assassins) over the Angel Falls, but this was shelved after the river-bed dried up. The pre-title sequence has a scene where Bond flies a nimble homebuilt Bede BD-5J aircraft through an open hangar. [17] Hollywood stunt pilot and aerial co-ordinator J. W. "Corkey" Fornof, who piloted the aircraft at more than 150 miles per hour (240km/h), has said, "Today, few directors would consider such a stunt. They'd just whip it up in a computer lab." [21] Having collapsible wings, the plane was shown hidden in a horse trailer; however, a dummy was used for this shot. [22] Filming inside the hangar was achieved by attaching the aircraft to an old Jaguar car with a steel pole, driving with the roof removed. [17] The second unit were able to add enough obstacles including people and objects inside the hangar to hide the car and the pole and make it look as though Moore was flying inside the base. For the explosion after the mini jet escapes, however, a miniature of the hangar was constructed and filmed up close. The exploding pieces of the hangar were in reality only four inches (10cm) long. [9] Octopussy also has the most sustained action of perhaps any Bond film: from the whiplash-inducing Acrostar jet sequence and high-speed tuk-tuk chase, to Bond running across a moving train and fighting atop a plane thousands of feet in the air. No surprise, but "Octopussy" bears no resemblance to the terrible Roger Moore movie, except that there is (very briefly) an octopus in the story. Bond himself is also an afterthought, appearing in just two brief scenes to ask a couple of questions about events that happened in Germany at the end of World War II. Similarly, while (thankfully) never made into a movie, "Property of a Lady" involves a Faberge egg, which as I recall was also a plot point in the Octopussy film. There's a more direct book/film connection with "Living Daylights," as the whole story is basically the first 15 minutes of the movie, (again, as I remember - don't hold me to it). Sadly, even though Moore is continuing the good acting of Bond he achieved in For Your Eyes Only, he is looking his age and not physically suited to the action. He is also saddled with having to do moronic things like swinging on a vine whilst doing the Tarzan jungle yell. It's pretty painful to watch and you have to wonder who on earth thought it was a good idea? There's moments when a silly bit of humour undermines the good plotting, while Berkoff and Amritraj are in turn over the top villainy and scarcely believable as a field agent. The film looks cheap, a rarity for a Bond film, and the smartness of the story often gets buried beneath the weight of convolutions. Most galling is that we should have had a classic Bond movie, a gargantuan feast of sets and tough secret agent shenanigans, for this was the year when Bond as we know it was facing off against the Kevin McClory rival Bond movie, Never Say Never Again, and that had Sean Connery in it; though he was also like Moore in his early 50s and too old for the suit.In 1987, Eon used the plot of "The Living Daylights", almost unchanged, for a section of their 1987 film of the same name. [34] The film starred Timothy Dalton in his first role as Bond, whilst the character of Trigger became that of cello player Kara Milovy. [35] Casino Royale (2006) Tidbit: The title " Octopussy" didn't always translate well, or at all, into foreign languages, so some countries got some creative titles. It seemed as though the plot was going to shift the motivations of the lead villain from craving world domination down to simply a jewel thief. To me, that was intriguing. Bringing the stories to a more realistic focus would have been compelling for this film. But instead we got a mess of a film. I'm just very tired of the use of nuclear weapon's for the lead villain. It's been used over and over again. Not every bad guy has nukes. Then there’s Lois Maxwell, our beloved Miss Moneypenny, who never fails to sprinkle her own brand of charm. Yet, in a delicious twist, when the camera settles on an enchanting woman, it’s not actually Moneypenny, but her new assistant, Penelope Smallbone, brought to life by Michaela Clavell.