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

Andor creator Tony Gilroy recently opened up about a James Bond movie pitch that he and renowned filmmaker and writer Steven Soderbergh made.

What was the 60s 007 movie about?

Speaking during an appearance on The Rogue Ones podcast, Gilroy opened up about a story Soderbergh once told about wanting to make a Bond movie. He said that Soderbergh and his pitch for the movie would take Bond back to the 1960s, and be a black-and-white film that he would’ve written.

“I think Steven tried twice to get into the Bond business,” Gilroy said. “And it sounds to me very much like what they’re doing now is very much what [Steven] was suggesting a long time ago,” he said, alluding to Soderbergh’s attempts to get the Broccolis to loosen the creative reins and the changes that are now afoot.

“We wanted to go back to the ’60s and do it in black and white and do Carnaby St. and do the whole thing, I thought it was a really swinging idea, like $30 million [budget], but he couldn’t get them to…they just wouldn’t give anybody control.”

Gilroy also opened up about a particular villain he had in mind for the franchise, which he says often struggles to find good ones.

“And then the other time—I don’t want to really talk about this—but I had a [good] villain,” said Gilroy. “The problem with the Bond [franchise] is that they can’t get a good villain that works. In my opinion, they haven’t had a villain that worked in a very, very long time. And that’s the whole problem, the rest of it takes care of itself. And I had another villain from another movie that I could have transposed, And [Steven and I] had a fantasy about doing that together, but no, I don’t think it went anywhere.”

The James Bond franchise is now in the hands of Amazon MGM Studios following the shocking announcement earlier this year that longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson would be stepping back from their long-time status as producers on the franchise, allowing Amazon MGM Studios to take creative control of the franchise. The agreement sees Amazon MGM Studios and the duo forming a new joint venture house to house the intellectual property rights for the Bond franchise.

The three parties will remain co-owners of the Bond series, but now Amazon MGM Studios will have creative control, something that Broccoli and Wilson had retained before. Prior to the announcement, both Wilson and Broccoli had been known as fiercely protective over the franchise, but in a statement on the move, Wilson noted that he was stepping back to focus more on art and charitable projects, while Broccoli said she would be focusing on other projects now.

Information about the future of the James Bond franchise, as well as what the next film will be about, remains mysterious for now.

Originally published on SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net