Spielberg was speaking to The Rest Is Entertainment podcast<\/a> and was asked if he had any \u201cregrets\u201d about not directing a 007 movie. Spielberg said that he had approached Albert \u201cCubby\u201d Broccoli, the legendary Bond producer who worked on every \u201cofficial\u201d Bond film between Dr No in 1962 and License to Kill in 1989, after Spielberg\u2019s 1975 shark thriller Jaws became a major hit, but was turned down. Spielberg said: \u201cI\u2019d always wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw Dr No. So I called Cubby Broccoli after Jaws and I volunteered. I said, if you need a director, I would love to direct one. And he said, no. And he moved on.\u201d<\/p>\nSpielberg then said Broccoli contacted him after the 1977 release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind to request use of the film\u2019s distinctive five-tone musical theme for what became the 1979 space thriller Moonraker and said he tried to make an agreement with Broccoli to direct a Bond film, but was again turned down. \u201cCubby called me again after Close Encounters came out and that was a big hit \u2026 and said, we\u2019d like to use the five notes in Moonraker. And I said, I\u2019ll make you a deal. I\u2019ll give you permission to use the five notes if you let me direct a Bond film. And he said, nope. But I gave him the five notes anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Spielberg, the story led directly to his working on Raiders of the Lost Ark; after telling George Lucas during the release of Star Wars how he had been rejected by Broccoli, Lucas responded by offering him his new project. \u201cThat\u2019s when George said, I have something better than Bond. It\u2019s called Indiana Smith, which is what it was called at the time. And he told me the premise of the Indiana Jones series. And that\u2019s how I got that job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spielberg added: \u201c[Broccoli] never explained why he wasn\u2019t letting me in the Bond family \u2026 [but] if they ever asked me to make a Bond film now, my answer would be: you can\u2019t afford me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg said that he was turned down twice by the producers of the James Bond movies \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}