James Bond: Andor Creator & Steven Soderbergh Pitched 60s 007 Movie

Andor creator Tony Gilroy precocious opened up astir a James Bond movie transportation that he and renowned filmmaker and writer Steven Soderbergh made.

What was nan 60s 007 movie about?

Speaking during an appearance connected The Rogue Ones podcast, Gilroy opened up astir a communicative Soderbergh erstwhile told astir wanting to make a Bond movie. He said that Soderbergh and his transportation for nan movie would return Bond backmost to nan 1960s, and beryllium a black-and-white movie that he would’ve written.

“I deliberation Steven tried doubly to get into nan Bond business,” Gilroy said. “And it sounds to maine very overmuch for illustration what they’re doing now is very overmuch what [Steven] was suggesting a agelong clip ago,” he said, alluding to Soderbergh’s attempts to get nan Broccolis to loosen nan imaginative reins and nan changes that are now afoot.

“We wanted to spell backmost to nan ’60s and do it successful achromatic and achromatic and do Carnaby St. and do nan full thing, I thought it was a really swinging idea, for illustration $30 cardinal [budget], but he couldn’t get them to…they conscionable wouldn’t springiness anybody control.”

Gilroy besides opened up astir a peculiar villain he had successful mind for nan franchise, which he says often struggles to find bully ones.

“And past nan different time—I don’t want to really talk astir this—but I had a [good] villain,” said Gilroy. “The problem pinch nan Bond [franchise] is that they can’t get a bully villain that works. In my opinion, they haven’t had a villain that worked successful a very, very agelong time. And that’s nan full problem, nan remainder of it takes attraction of itself. And I had different villain from different movie that I could person transposed, And [Steven and I] had a imagination astir doing that together, but no, I don’t deliberation it went anywhere.”

The James Bond franchise is now successful nan hands of Amazon MGM Studios pursuing nan shocking announcement earlier this twelvemonth that longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson would be stepping back from their long-time position arsenic producers connected nan franchise, allowing Amazon MGM Studios to return imaginative power of nan franchise. The statement sees Amazon MGM Studios and nan duo forming a caller associated task location to location nan intelligence spot authorities for nan Bond franchise.

The 3 parties will stay co-owners of nan Bond series, but now Amazon MGM Studios will person imaginative control, thing that Broccoli and Wilson had retained before. Prior to nan announcement, some Wilson and Broccoli had been known arsenic fiercely protective complete nan franchise, but successful a connection connected nan move, Wilson noted that he was stepping backmost to attraction much connected creation and charitable projects, while Broccoli said she would beryllium focusing connected different projects now.

Information astir nan early of nan James Bond franchise, arsenic good arsenic what nan adjacent movie will beryllium about, remains mysterious for now.

Originally published connected SuperHeroHype.