 In March 2004 rumours surfaced about a lost 1956 version of "Moonraker" by Orson Welles, and a James Bond web site repeated it on April Fool's Day in 2004 as a hoax.Supposedly, this recently discovered lost film consisted of 40 minutes of raw footage with Dirk Bogarde as Bond, Welles as Drax, and Peter Lorre as Drax's henchman.The screenplay of "Moonraker" differed so much from Ian Fleming's novel that Eon Productions authorised the film's screenwriter Christopher Wood to write a novelisation, his second (after "James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me").