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<blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9602731" data-attributes="member: 78087"><p>Yeah, there’s some room for real world references in a remake.</p><p></p><p>In the book, Hugo Drax is an English industrialist developing the Moonraker rocket as part of Britain’s space project. He turns out to be a poorly disguised Nazi ex-commando (his real name is Hugo von Drache) who intends to revenge himself on Britain for WW2 by flying Moonraker (which now has a nuclear warhead) into London.</p><p></p><p>In a modern remake, I’d make Hugo Drax an American billionaire whose fortune is based on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and rocketry; his StarStorm company is a NASA contractor putting the Moonraker satellite network into orbit to provide precise and reliable internet access wherever it is needed. Investigating the suspicious death of a Welsh engineer at StarStorm in Texas, Bond and Moneypenny discover that Drax is one of the last KGB sleeper agents in North America, and through his old masters has obtained a nuclear warhead for one of his rockets and is planning to aim it at New York, but has no actual ideological commitment to Russia (after all, he was a teenager when the KGB sent him to Pennsylvania). The idea is to destroy and disrupt the global financial system so that DraxCoin is the only reliable currency, enforced by blockchain via the Moonraker network. When Bond points out that nuking New York and killing 10 million people might have slightly more complex externalities than simply crashing the dollar and the world economy, Drax shrugs and takes some more ketamine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jian, post: 9602731, member: 78087"] Yeah, there’s some room for real world references in a remake. In the book, Hugo Drax is an English industrialist developing the Moonraker rocket as part of Britain’s space project. He turns out to be a poorly disguised Nazi ex-commando (his real name is Hugo von Drache) who intends to revenge himself on Britain for WW2 by flying Moonraker (which now has a nuclear warhead) into London. In a modern remake, I’d make Hugo Drax an American billionaire whose fortune is based on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and rocketry; his StarStorm company is a NASA contractor putting the Moonraker satellite network into orbit to provide precise and reliable internet access wherever it is needed. Investigating the suspicious death of a Welsh engineer at StarStorm in Texas, Bond and Moneypenny discover that Drax is one of the last KGB sleeper agents in North America, and through his old masters has obtained a nuclear warhead for one of his rockets and is planning to aim it at New York, but has no actual ideological commitment to Russia (after all, he was a teenager when the KGB sent him to Pennsylvania). The idea is to destroy and disrupt the global financial system so that DraxCoin is the only reliable currency, enforced by blockchain via the Moonraker network. When Bond points out that nuking New York and killing 10 million people might have slightly more complex externalities than simply crashing the dollar and the world economy, Drax shrugs and takes some more ketamine. [/QUOTE]
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