Steven Spielberg har lenge ønsket å regissere en James Bond-film. Han har dessverre ikke fått muligheten til det. Men nå ryktes det at Spielberg er interessert i å regissere Matt Helm, som handler om den amerikanske agenten Matt Helm. The Playlist skriver at «Drama surrounding the divorce of Paramount and DreamWorks is set to ignite as Steven Spielberg is hoping to take the reins a project left over at Paramount — a custody battle of sorts if you will. Reports are that Spielberg has garnered strong interest for «Matt Helm,» a project developed by DreamWorks for several years but ultimately left over at Paramount in the divorce. Spielberg is already on board as a producer alongside screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci however his efforts to gain the director’s chair may be thwarted by Paramount’s efforts to cut back on the kind of first-dollars gross deals that are bread and butter for Spielberg. As a result, Paramount may prefer a more economically viable filmmaker despite everything that comes with the Spielberg name.»
Her snakker for øvrig Spielberg om Sean Connery og James Bond:
