The Playlist:
The first pitch, he said, goes back to 2008, and it was already
pretty radical by Bond standards. “I had pitched in 2008 the
idea to Barbara Broccoli of a parallel franchise,” Soderbergh
said. “Set in the ’60s, R-rated, violent, sexy. Fictional
backstory to real historical events, different actor, different
universe.” […]That version was designed to open up a different, more lo-fi,
stripped-down, and cost-effective way of making Bond movies, but
not a replacement for them. “[It would be] cheaply made, where you
get people like me, who are interested in that approach to do one
of these things,” Soderbergh explained. “It’s just another lane
that exists totally separate from the normal Bond movies.”Broccoli and company, he said, were at least open enough to hear
it out. “They were intrigued,” Soderbergh said. “But didn’t move
forward.”
This hurts — it hurts to ponder what could have been.
