According to a tell-all memoir by 1970s Bond film superstar Roger Moore, Hollywood director Steven Spielberg once had his sights set on directing a Bond film.
Moore, who starred as James Bond in the film franchise from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, reveals details of a meeting with Spielberg at a hotel in Paris in his forthcoming book.
"He was a huge Bond fan and said that he would love to direct one of the films," reveals Moore's in his memoir "My Word is my Bond", "He'd recently had great success with "Jaws" and "Close Encounters" and was considered a very hot property."
However, despite Moore's excitement over Spielberg's comment, Bond film producer Albert R "Cubby" Broccoli was less enthused by the idea.
"I was rather excited at this news and went looking for Broccoli... to tell him. But Broccoli, who steered the Bond franchise over three decades, shook his head and asked, 'Do you know how much of a percentage he'd want?'"
Moore goes on to reveal: "It's always been policy that no Bond director ever got a slice of the box office profits, so Spielberg went off and made "Indiana Jones" who I reckon to be a period James Bond!"
