Steven Spielberg’s Attempts To Direct A James Bond Film Didn’t Quite Go To Plan
Broccoli, who died in 1996, then made contact with Spielberg again in 1977, after the success of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, to request permission to use part of the film’s iconic musical theme in a Bond movie.
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