Apparently Roger Moore’s James Bond Movies Picked Their Stories Based On Potential Vacation Destinations

I used to ask Roger, I said, ‘Look, how do you decide where you’re going to do the next, what the next Bond film is going to be?’ Because they were running out of books, of course. He said, ‘Oh, we get together and decide where we want to have our next vacation, and then we write a story around it.’ I went, ‘Ok, well that makes sense.’ … They chose locations first, and then decided on the script that would fit it. They don’t do that now, not under Barbara’s watch; but back in the day, it was Harry Saltzman and Cubby, that’s what they did.