In this day and age, it’s hard to imagine anyone turning down three-time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg. But the director revealed that he had previously been rejected several times after being asked to direct a James Bond film.
During a recent interview on The rest is entertainment podcast, Disclosure day The director was asked if he regrets not directing a 007 movie.
“I’m sorry they didn’t approach me to direct a Bond movie,” Spielberg explained. “I approached Cubby Broccoli [James Bond franchise producer] after Jaws It was a big hit. I’ve always wanted to make a James Bond movie since the day I saw it Dr. Noso I called Cubby Broccoli after me Jaws And volunteer. “If you need a way out, I like to take him out,” I said. He said no and left.”
the ET extraterrestrial The director said he showed himself again a few years later after the 1977 film was released Close Encounters of the Third Kind. At that time, he recalls, Broccoli approached him and asked to use his famous five-note film melody in a scene in 1979. Moonraker.
“I said, ‘I’ll make you a deal. I’ll give you permission to use the five notes if you let me direct a Bond movie.’ And he said no. “But I gave him the five notes anyway,” Spielberg said. “They kept rejecting me. It was never explained why I wasn’t allowed to join the Bond family.”
However, when one door closes (or refuses to open in this case), another door opens. Although he didn’t get the chance to direct a Bond film, Spielberg did find his way into another popular film series: Indiana Jones.
“When I told that story to George Lucas in 1977, when we were in Hawaii together preparing for the film’s release. Star Wars: A New HopeHe said: I have something better than Bond. It’s called Indiana Smith, which is what it was called at the time. Fabelmans The manager explained. “He told me the idea for an Indiana Jones series, and that’s how I got this job.”
He went on to direct four Indiana Jones films, starting in the 1980s Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Fast forward to today, Spielberg admitted that if he were asked to direct a Bond movie now, my answer would be: “You can’t afford me.” Sand dunes Director Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next installment, the first from Amazon MGM Studios.
Spielberg’s latest movies, Disclosure daywill be released in theaters on June 12.
