 This was the final Bond film to be distributed solely by United Artists; the company was absorbed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer soon after this film's release.Roger Moore reprised the James Bond role in the 1983 sequel "Octopussy".In the prologue, after visiting the grave of his late wife Tracy Bond, Bond is trapped in a remote-controlled helicopter by a mysterious villain (strongly implied to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld).