Fleming stipulated £1,000 for an advance option, and £10,000 for the movie rights. Arthur Rank Organisation via Ian Hunter bought an advance option from Fleming to the novel "Moonraker". and English agents of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Also, there were allegedly trans-Atlantic problems between the U.S. Apparently, he eventually gave up the option when he learned he couldn't obtain the rights to the entire 007 series. Payne was the first person in Hollywood interested in making the James Bond novels into a film franchise. In 1955, John Payne negotiated and purchased the rights for an option to "Moonraker", paying a $1,000 a month option for nine months. Therefore, the entire sequence required eighty-eight jumps, and five weeks to film, just to produce the two minutes of footage in the final movie. After factoring in the time needed to get the performers and cameraman into position after leaving their plane, only a few seconds of film could be shot per jump. There were only sixty to seventy seconds of free fall time, between when the stunt performers exited the aircraft, and when they had to activate their chutes. A breakaway seam ran down the back, which allowed the parachute to be opened without the need to remove the coat. The actual parachutes used by the stuntmen had a main and reserve chute concealed within the suitcoats. Stuntman Jake Lombard would don and remove the dummy chute up to three times in a single jump. The "parachute" over which they fought, was actually a dummy chute, which had to be removed before the stuntman could use the real parachute underneath. Worth wore parachutes concealed within their suits. The seven-pound camera for these sequences was mounted on the helmet of another skydiver, and a few shots are of the cameraman's own arms and legs. Except for a few brief close-ups, the entire sequence of Bond, Jaws, and the pilot falling from the plane, with Bond and the pilot fighting for a single parachute, was shot in free fall.
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