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Filmmaker Stephen Soderbergh pitched some rather unconventional James Bond movies to then-producer Barbara Broccoli.
"I had pitched in 2008 the idea to Barbara Broccoli of a parallel franchise. [It would be] cheaply made, where you get people like me, who are interested in that approach to do one of these things," Soderbergh told The Playlist, when asked about his first idea. "Set in the ’60s, R-rated, violent, sexy. Fictional backstory to real historical events, different actor, different universe...
"It’s just another lane that exists totally separate from the normal Bond movies. I was just kind of, you know, pitching a hardcore auteur, low-budget period Bond."
“To be fair to them, it really was a twofer," he continued. "I was like, I want to do both, I have ideas for both. But it’s all or nothing. You’ve either got to do both of them, you can’t have just one or the other, and I think that was just – that was a little aggressive."
