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Total Film
Total Film
Entertainment
Lauren Milici

Before his cancelled Star Wars movie, Steven Soderbergh pitched two James Bond movies, including a "parallel franchise" set in the '60s and a "contemporary extravaganza"

Daniel Craig in new James Bond movie No Time to Die.

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...

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