20 Things You Didn't Know About A View To A Kill (1985)

The 14th James Bond film, released in 1985 and it marked the end of an era. It was the last Bond film to star Sir Roger Moore as agent Double-0 Seven (even if Daniel Craig has spent more time in the role year-wise, the suave Moore’s number of Bond films has yet to be exceeded). But it was just more than hung up his Walther PPK for good as Lois Maxwell’s Miss Moneypenny bowed out with him.

It was also the first James Bond outing that Californian director, Cary Joji Fukunaga saw at the cinema – an important point given that Fukunaga has gone on to helm No Time to Die (2020), the 25th official film in the franchise and Daniel Craig's last Bond film. Now expected to be released in November 2020.

The film brought the classic era of Bond to a close, allowing the filmmakers to delve into a grittier interpretation of Double-0 Seven, and has attracted mixed responses from fans and critics over the years, even though it features several classic Bond moments.

Here are 20 of those “few details” that Roger’s James Bond could not completely clean up at the end of the film!

Being a iconic location for the film, Paris plays a crucial role in A View To A Kill. To cap off all that the City of Lights has to offer, the filmmakers had planned for May Day (Grace Jones) to base jump off of the Eiffel Tower.

Parachutists, B.J. Worth and Don Caldvedt would perform the jump; however, Worth's jump was satisfactory to complete the scene. Upset that he would not get the opportunity to parachute off the Eiffel Tower, Caldvedt made an unauthorised jump from the structure. This greatly upset the Parisian authorities and called into question whether the Bond production team could continue working there.

Long-time Bond producer, Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli dismissed Caldvedt from the film, which tentatively ensured that A View to a Kill could wrap up the remaining scenes to be shot there.