"1985, four years before its destruction, James Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore) drove along the freeway in ""A View to a Kill"" as he followed his ally Stacey Sutton (Tanya Roberts) during his quest to eliminate the villainous Max Zorin (Christopher Walken). For a sequence at the beginning of the 2007 film ""Zodiac"", which takes place in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the now-demolished freeway was digitally added behind a shot of the Ferry Building. In the 1993 NBC made-for-TV movie ""Miracle on Interstate 880"", the Embarcadero Freeway, which was being demolished at the time,"
"A View to a Kill A View to a Kill is a 1985 British spy film, the fourteenth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story ""From a View to a Kill"", the film has an entirely original screenplay. In ""A View to a Kill"", Bond is pitted against Max Zorin, who plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who also wrote"
"Diavolo, a character in the 2004 game """", claiming Zorin to be his mentor and friend. In """", a multiplayer level is the summit of the Golden Gate Bridge, including the Zorin blimp, which would fire on players when activated. Players are also able to climb the suspension cables (similar to the events of the film). A View to a Kill A View to a Kill is a 1985 British spy film, the fourteenth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although"
"intricate tap-dancing striptease in Herbert Ross's musical ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1981). In 1982, he played a socially awkward but gifted theater actor in the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s short story ""Who Am I This Time?"" opposite Susan Sarandon. Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith in David Cronenberg's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's ""The Dead Zone"". That same year, Walken also starred in ""Brainstorm"" alongside Natalie Wood and (in a minor role) his wife, Georgianne. In 1985, Walken played a James Bond villain, Max Zorin, in ""A View to a Kill"", Roger Moore's last appearance as Bond. Walken dyed"
"which makes microchips. The Zoran Corporation threatened to sue for defamation. Pre-production crew had neglected to do a trademark search prior to filming. The parties came to an agreement and, because of this, ""A View to a Kill"" is the first 007 film with a legal disclaimer inserted. Zorin is a playable multiplayer character in the 2002 video game ""Nightfire"". In the 2004 video game """", it is stated that Zorin had an apprentice named Nikolai Diavolo (voiced by Willem Dafoe), who plans to use nanobots to commence the rebirth of the Soviet Union. Diavolo also wishes to kill Bond"
"Stacey Sutton Stacey Sutton is a fictional character in the 1985 James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"". She is played by actress Tanya Roberts. Stacey Sutton is the granddaughter of a California oil tycoon. She lives at Dunsmuir House, handed down to her from her paternal side. As heir apparent, Stacey was in line to take over the company her grandfather left her father. However, Sutton Oil was taken over by billionaire Max Zorin when Sutton's father died. Sutton is locked in a lawsuit against Zorin regarding ownership of the oil company. Because of her protracted legal battles"
"going to get an ice cream headache. It's going to hurt real bad, right here, [touches forehead] for eight, nine seconds.""). His character in ""A View to a Kill"" was parodied in a sketch titled ""Lease with an Option to Kill"", in which he reprised his role as Max Zorin. Zorin, who had taken on some qualities of other notable Bond villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset that everything was going wrong for him. His lair was still under construction; his henchmen had jump suits that didn't fit; and his shark tank lacked sharks, having"
"Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1985, Jones starred as May Day, henchman to main antagonist Max Zorin in the 14th James Bond film ""A View to a Kill""; Jones was also nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. That same year, she was featured on the Arcadia song ""Election Day"". Jones was among the many stars to promote the Honda Scooter; other artists included Lou Reed, Adam Ant, and Miles Davis. Jones also, with her boyfriend Dolph Lundgren posed nude for ""Playboy"". After Jones' success as a mainstream actress, she returned to the studio to work"
"""Eye for an Eye"" of USA's ""Burn Notice"". Patrick Bauchau Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau (born 6 December 1938) is a Belgian actor best known for his role as Scarpine in the 1985 James Bond movie, ""A View to a Kill"", Sydney (Jarod's mentor) in the TV series ""The Pretender"" and Doctor Rowan Chase, Doctor Robert Chase's estranged father in the TV series, ""House"". Patrick Bauchau was born in Brussels, Belgium on 6 December 1938, the son of Mary (née Kozyrev), a Russian-born school administrator and publisher, and Henry Bauchau, a school administrator, lawyer, publisher, writer, and psychoanalyst who"
"film appearance. ""A View to a Kill"" was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. Wilson also co-authored the screenplay along with Richard Maibaum. At the end of ""Octopussy"" during the ""James Bond Will Return"" sequence, it listed the next film as ""From a View to a Kill"", the name of the original short story; however, the title was later changed. When a company with a name similar to Zorin (the Zoran Corporation) was discovered in the United States, a disclaimer was added to the start of the film affirming that Zorin was not related to any real-life"
"Fiona Fullerton Fiona Elizabeth Fullerton (born 10 October 1956) is a British actress and singer, known for her role as Alice in the 1972 film ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and as Bond girl KGB spy Pola Ivanova in the 1985 James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"". Fullerton is the daughter of Bernard and Pamela (née Crook) Fullerton. An only child, Fullerton lived with her parents in Singapore, Germany, the United States, and Nigeria. After weekly ballet lessons, at the age of 9 she was accepted into Elmhurst Ballet School in Camberley, Surrey as a boarder. Fullerton made her"
"Patrick Bauchau Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau (born 6 December 1938) is a Belgian actor best known for his role as Scarpine in the 1985 James Bond movie, ""A View to a Kill"", Sydney (Jarod's mentor) in the TV series ""The Pretender"" and Doctor Rowan Chase, Doctor Robert Chase's estranged father in the TV series, ""House"". Patrick Bauchau was born in Brussels, Belgium on 6 December 1938, the son of Mary (née Kozyrev), a Russian-born school administrator and publisher, and Henry Bauchau, a school administrator, lawyer, publisher, writer, and psychoanalyst who served as an officer in the Belgian Underground"
"A View to a Kill (song) ""A View to a Kill"" is the thirteenth single by the English new wave and synthpop band Duran Duran, released on 6 May 1985. Written and recorded as the theme for the 1985 James Bond movie of the same name, it became one of the band's biggest hits. It remains the only James Bond theme song to have reached number 1 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100; it also made it to number 2 for three weeks on the UK Singles Chart. In 1986, composer John Barry and Duran Duran were nominated for the"
"A View to a Kill (soundtrack) A View to a Kill is the soundtrack for the film of the same name, the 14th installment in the James Bond film series. The theme song ""A View to a Kill"", was written by John Barry and Duran Duran, and was recorded in London with a 60-piece orchestra. ""A View to a Kill"" is the most successful Bond theme to date. In 1986 Barry and Duran Duran were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Duran Duran was chosen to do the song after bassist John Taylor (a lifelong Bond"
"primary filming moved to San Francisco. Filming finished in January 1985 at the 007 Stage, with the filming of the interior of Zorin's mine, designed by Peter Lamont. With the retirement of Roger Moore following ""A View to a Kill"", the producers searched for a new Bond and eventually cast Timothy Dalton in the lead role in August 1986. Much of the senior production crew from the previous film worked on ""The Living Daylights"", with John Glen directing, John Barry providing the score and Peter Lamont acting as production designer. Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum again provided the script"
"held on 12 June 1985 at the Odeon Leicester Square Cinema in London. It achieved a box office collection of US$152.4 million worldwide with $50.3 million in the United States alone. On its opening weekend in the US it earned $10.6 million. Although its box office reception was excellent, the film's critical response was mostly negative. Rotten Tomatoes currently gives ""A View to a Kill"" a 36% approval rating, which is the lowest rating for the Eon-produced Bond films on the website. The film was first broadcast on British television on 31 January 1990. One of the most common criticisms"
"and working in London. She met Neil Shackell and the couple married shortly after meeting in 1994, and now live in the Cotswolds with his son James and their daughter Lucy (born 1995). Fiona Fullerton Fiona Elizabeth Fullerton (born 10 October 1956) is a British actress and singer, known for her role as Alice in the 1972 film ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and as Bond girl KGB spy Pola Ivanova in the 1985 James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"". Fullerton is the daughter of Bernard and Pamela (née Crook) Fullerton. An only child, Fullerton lived with her parents"
"Q reports to his superiors that 007 is alive and ""cleaning up a few details. "" In 2006 ""Entertainment Weekly"" ranked Sutton as the second worst Bond girl. ""Dose"" ranks her as the sixth best Bond girl. Roger Moore has stated many times that he thought there was little or no chemistry between their characters. In his autobiography Moore said of Tanya Roberts: ""If you can't say anything good about someone, don't say anything at all...I won't say anything."" Stacey Sutton Stacey Sutton is a fictional character in the 1985 James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"". She is"
"live version of the song at the beginning of the Andra Chansen (Second Chance) round of Melodifestivalen 2010 in Örebro, Sweden. Jay Gonzalez of Drive-By Truckers covered the song in a bossa nova style on the 2017 multi-artist compilation album, ""Songs, Bond Songs: The Music Of 007"". Albums: A View to a Kill (song) ""A View to a Kill"" is the thirteenth single by the English new wave and synthpop band Duran Duran, released on 6 May 1985. Written and recorded as the theme for the 1985 James Bond movie of the same name, it became one of the band's"
"Maud Adams Maud Solveig Christina Adams (née Wikström; born 12 February 1945), is a Swedish actress, known for her roles as two different Bond girls, first in ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974) and then as the eponymous character in ""Octopussy"" (1983), as well as making a brief uncredited appearance in ""A View to a Kill"" (1985). Adams was born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström in Luleå, Sweden, the daughter of Thyra, a government tax inspector, and Gustav Wikström, a comptroller. She had once wanted to work as an interpreter as she is fluent in five languages. She was discovered"
"the rogue doesn't believe him. Instead, Chuck agrees to hide Laszlo at the Buy More, where they watch ""A View to a Kill"", as Laszlo has never seen a Bond movie. However, Laszlo interprets Max Zorin as the real hero, as he relates to his being the subject of government experimentation. He then reveals that he designed the Home Theater room and that it's capable of tapping into military computers. Laszlo upgrades a nuclear-armed B-2 bomber to active status and sends it to bomb San Francisco, in honor of Max Zorin who attempted to destroy Silicon Valley (and inadvertently, San"
"in ""Holiday"" at The Old Vic alongside Mary Steenburgen and Malcolm McDowell. He also played musical theater, including a portrayal of Juan Perón in the London cast of ""Evita"". He played faded film director Max von Mayerling, alongside Patti LuPone, in the original (1993) cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""Sunset Boulevard"". Benzali also appeared on Broadway in ""Fiddler on the Roof"" and other smaller productions. In 1985 he was cast role in the James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"" as W. G. Howe, the Californian director of Oil and Mines, based at San Francisco City Hall. The character"
"Tanya Roberts Victoria Leigh Blum (born October 15, 1955), known by the stage name Tanya Roberts, is an American actress and producer. She initially rose to prominence as Julie Rogers in the final season of ""Charlie's Angels"" in 1980. She is known for her role as Kiri in ""The Beastmaster"" (1982), Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"" (1985), and as Midge Pinciotti on ""That '70s Show"" (1998–2004). Roberts was born in 1955 in the Bronx, New York City, the second child of her father, of Irish descent, and a Jewish mother. She has one"
"Sower"", Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp. Bowie had a cameo in ""Yellowbeard"", a 1983 pirate comedy created by Monty Python members, and a small part as Colin, the hitman in the 1985 film ""Into the Night"". He declined to play the villain Max Zorin in the James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"" (1985). ""Absolute Beginners"" (1986), a rock musical film adapted from Colin MacInnes's book of the same name about life in late 1950s London, featured Bowie's music and presented him with a minor acting role. The same year,"
"the screenplay with Richard Maibaum. It was the third James Bond film to be directed by John Glen, and the last to feature Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny. Despite receiving mostly negative reviews from critics, who frequently took umbrage with the effects of Moore's advanced age on his performance, it was a commercial success, with the Duran Duran theme song ""A View to a Kill"" performing well in the charts, becoming the only theme song to reach #1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Song. MI6 agent James Bond is sent to Siberia"
"years, she made her debut as an actress in the 1984 film ""Conan the Destroyer"", where she played alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. She later appeared in the James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"" as the villain May Day. After finishing filming in late 1984 she returned to the studio to work on a follow-up, ending an almost three-year-long hiatus. ""Slave to the Rhythm"", both song and album, was written by Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn and was produced by Trevor Horn, who was assisted by Lipson. Unlike most albums that feature a collection of different"
"Man in Full"" features a fictional major earthquake on the Hayward Fault as a deus ex machina method (freeing a major character from prison) and plot development point. The James Bond movie ""A View to a Kill"" (1985) involved a plot, referred as ""Main Strike"", by Max Zorin to detonate explosives along the Hayward Fault, San Andreas Fault and at the ""geological lock"" to flood the two faults with water from nearby lakes and cause both faults to move causing a ""double earthquake"" that would destroy Silicon Valley, all in order for Zorin to monopolize the microchip market. Sources Hayward"
"This may be based on an alleged sighting by a British sailor in 1939. In 1950, a Douglas DC-4 operated by the private airline Loftleiðir crash-landed on the Vatnajökull glacier. The glacier was used as the setting for the opening sequence (set in Siberia) of the 1985 James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"", in which Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore) eliminated a host of armed villains before escaping in a submarine to Alaska. Several other films, including another in the Bond franchise, have been filmed on or using Jökulsárlón, the terminal lake of the"
"It's an entertaining movie that could have been better."" Walken was also praised by online critic Christopher Null for portraying a ""classic Bond villain"". Roberts was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award as Worst Actress, but she lost the trophy to Linda Blair, who appeared in ""Night Patrol"", ""Savage Island"" and ""Savage Streets"". This film was adapted into two video games in 1985. The first, titled ""A View to a Kill"", was published by Domark. It was available for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Oric 1 and Oric Atmos, and MSX. The second, titled ""James Bond 007: A"
"Face Before"", ""Private Life"", and ""Slave to the Rhythm"". In 1982, she released the music video collection ""A One Man Show"", directed by Goude. Jones appeared in some low-budget films in the US during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1984, she made her first mainstream appearance as Zula in the fantasy-action film ""Conan the Destroyer"" alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Douglas, and subsequently appeared in the 1985 James Bond movie ""A View to a Kill"" as May Day. In 1986, she played a vampire in ""Vamp"", and acted in and contributed a song to the 1992 Eddie Murphy film"
"the character as the producers felt it important to incorporate the regular character and actress Lois Maxwell. Maxwell and Connery filmed their lines separately and were not present together for the short scene However, she stayed on as Moneypenny when her former classmate, Roger Moore, assumed the role of 007 in ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). She reprised her character, weeping for the death of Bond, in a short scene with Lee in the French comedy ""Bons baisers de Hong Kong"" (1975). During the filming of ""A View to a Kill"" (1985), her final appearance as Moneypenny, producer Cubby Broccoli"
"Lycett noted that at the time Fleming was writing both the television scripts, and the short story collection, ""Ian's mood of weariness and self-doubt was beginning to affect his writing"" and this can be seen in Bond's internal monologue of thoughts. ""From a View to a Kill"" was initially intended to be the backstory for Hugo Drax, the villain of the novel ""Moonraker"". The story would have taken place during World War II, and featured Drax as the motorcycle assassin who crashes his bike and is taken to an American field hospital. Later, the hospital is bombed, leaving Drax with"
"an actor, and took the role as a favor to Hudlin. Three of the actors in this film have starred in the James Bond 007 films. This includes Geoffrey Holder (Baron Samedi from the film ""Live and Let Die""), Grace Jones (May Day from the film ""A View to a Kill""), and Halle Berry (Giacinta ""Jinx"" Johnson from the film ""Die Another Day""). The majority of the film was shot in New York City during the winter. Although it was very cold, the director said that it was still ""great to actually be in the city and get that authentic"