Bond Producer Recalls ‘Distressing’ Meeting With Amy Winehouse to Record ‘Quantum of Solace’ Theme Song: ‘It Was Very Sad’

Ed Sheeran has said he’d already “started writing” the theme song for No Time To Die when he was replaced by Billie Eilish.Back in 2019, Sheeran’s manager revealed that the star had met James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli two years prior to discuss penning the official track for the most recent film in the hit spy franchise.Danny Boyle, who worked with Sheeran on Richard Curtis’ Yesterday (2019), was lined up to direct the 25th Bond movie at the time (he later quit due to “creative differences”, with Cary Joji Fukunaga taking over the role).“Obviously they changed directors but we’re still open to it,” Stuart Camp explained. “But they’re not even having those conversations yet.”He added: “It’s certainly something [Sheeran would] want to do though, it’s a box that’s still to be ticked, for sure.”But the No Time To Die theme ended up going to Billie Eilish, who went on to win her first Oscar for the song.During an appearance on That Peter Crouch Podcast this week, Sheeran explained: “I was within a fucking gnat’s pube of doing one [a Bond theme], but then they changed directors, changed scripts and that was it all done.“I had started writing it.

James Bond instead of Daniel Craig.Appearing on the Acting For Others podcast, the Doctor Who star said he had no idea he was being eyed for the role until recently.Asked if he’d ever been in the running, Tennant said: “I never believed I had, until I worked with a director recently who had worked with the Broccolis who said, ‘Yeah, you were on the list that time.’“I was like, ‘What time? What are you talking about?’ He went, ‘Yeah, the last time.’ I suppose it must have been Daniel Craig, before that I would have been a child.”He added: “I think it was quite a long list and I don’t think I was ever very near the top of it. But apparently so.”The role of 007 went to Daniel Craig in 2006. The actor went on to play the secret agent for 15 years before bowing out in No Time To Die.Earlier this month, producer Michael G.

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Amy Winehouse‘s life is in the works.It comes after Halcyon Studio bought the rights to the bestselling book Saving Amy by Daphne Barak, with reports suggesting they plan to turn it into an eight-part show.The series will follow the singer’s relationships, including with her family and father Mitch, as well as her talent and her battle with drug addiction.Writer Mal Young is set to adapt the book, which itself charts six months that Barak and producer Erbil Gunasti spent with Winehouse and her family.“Although her career was cut far too short, Amy was the voice of a generation and we look forward to telling her story in the most poignant way possible,” said Halcyon Studio chief executive David Ellender (via MailOnline).Winehouse died in 2011 aged just 27.

Celebrity SAS: Calum and Maisie are interrogated by blonde femaleStrictly: Matt Goss in tears as he exits the showMillionaire: Richard Madeley calls Jeremy Clarkson 'Chris'Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor trailerEmmerdale: Samson Dingle clashes with dad SamStrictly: Gorka Marquez backs Helen Skelton in 'defiant' speechEmmerdale: 50th anniversary special teased in trailerStrictly: Claudia apologises after Tony Adams swearsStrictly: Will Mellor coughs after dance and appears unwellStrictly: Shirley Ballas gives feedback to Matt GossA drama on Amy Winehouse’s “troubled life” is set to hit the small screen as a book detailing her song writing genius, addictions to booze and drugs, and difficult relationships is turned into a “poignant” eight-part-drama. The world-famous “Back to Black” singer died in 2011 at the age of just 27, from alcohol poisoning after battling drink and drug addiction.

Entertainment Weekly recently.The 62-year-old went on: “She was very fragile emotionally and, you know, you understood how she could create such moving material, because she has a great depth of feeling and it was very very tragic.”The executive continued: “What an incredible talent, what an incredible voice, what an incredible person she was and it was very, very sad.”The “Back to Black” crooner died at the age of 27 and was found dead in bed at her London home in July 2011. She suffered from drug and alcohol problems for years prior to her death.Winehouse and her musical partner Mark Ronson composed — but never finished — recording a theme in 2008.The 007 bosses decided to go a different route and hired Alicia Keys and Jack White of The White Stripes to record instead.Ronson, 47, announced at the time that he pulled his demo with Winehouse and said she’s “not ready to record any music.” The “Uptown Funk” producer also noted that it would take “some miracle of science” to finish it.White discussed getting the Bond gig in an episode of the podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend this past July and noted that he scored the job at the last minute.

Ever since Daniel Craig announced that he would be turning in the tuxedo and putting down the martini glass, the race has been on to decide who will be chosen as the next James Bond. “Bond 26” won’t even go into production until 2023 at the earliest, so it could be a good long while until we know who will take over as Ian Fleming’s iconic character.

James Bond producer Michael G. Wilson has ruled out the possibility of a younger 007, claiming the next actor will likely be in their thirties.Wilson made the comment while appearing at an In Conversation event at London’s British Film Institute to celebrate 60 years of James Bond.”We’ve tried looking at younger people in the past, but trying to visualise it doesn’t work,” he said.“Remember, Bond’s already a veteran. He’s had some experience.

James Bond bosses are hard at work in looking for a new actor to take over as 007 after Daniel Craig stepped down last year. But the franchise leads, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, are also looking for a new artist to take over the Bond song for the next movie.

James Bond film producer Michael G. Wilson, who runs Eon Productions with Barbara Broccoli, has revealed that a seduction scene from the 1963 thriller From Russia With Love is always used to test those aspiring to play Ian Fleming’s ruthless spy.

James Bond franchise producer Barbara Broccoli has opened up about a “very sad” meeting she had with Amy Winehouse about recording the theme song.A new documentary, The Sound Of 007, has explored the music of the Bond franchise, which sees Broccoli recalling a meeting with Winehouse about writing the theme song for 2008’s Quantum Of Solace.“Well, that was a very very distressing meeting, [Winehouse] was not at her best and my heart really went out to her,” Broccoli says in the documentary, per Entertainment Weekly.“She was very fragile emotionally and, you know, you understood how she could create such moving material, because she has a great depth of feeling and it was very very tragic.“What an incredible talent, what an incredible voice, what an incredible person she was and it was very very sad.”Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas wrote the theme song for the last Bond film No Time To Die, and won an Oscar for their work on the track of the same name.The pair worked with Hans Zimmer and Johnny Marr on the track, with the latter saying that Eilish and her brother were “so classy”.“They’re so classy and know that if you want to do a Bond theme, it’s about doing something that’s your sound,” Marr told NME. “I wanted to protect that, and in the end we just kept coming back to ‘reduce, reduce, reduce’.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Giorgia Meloni is poised to become the next prime minister of Italy. With her victory will come the country’s most far-right government since Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party ruled during World War II. If exit polls are correct, Meloni will become the first female prime minister of Italy. Her Brothers of Italy party is projected to win between 22% to 26% of the vote, which would allow her to outflank Enrico Letta, the centre left politician who is her nearest rival. Brothers of Italy are expected to form a coalition government with Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia. Final results are expected on Monday morning.

Carson Burton Thanks to the Will Rogers Pioneer Assistance Fund, thousands of movie theater workers can sleep better at night. The PAF provides financial aid and support to individuals who work in theatrical exhibition and distribution, and vendors who are experiencing an illness, accident or injury. The Pioneer of the Year Dinner, the org’s annual fundraising event, will be returning to in-person festivities Sept. 21 in Beverly Hills this year, contributing a significant chunk of the fund’s donations. Each year, the event honors a person or people due to their work in Hollywood and philanthropy. This year, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, the producers behind the James Bond franchise, are being honored.

The search for the next James Bond is still in its “early days.”

James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has admitted he wasn’t a fan of No Time To Die.Brosnan, who played the 007 agent from 1995 to 2002, was recently asked about the future of the Bond franchise in light of Daniel Craig retiring after recently playing the role in No Time To Die for the final time.Discussing which films in the franchise he had recently seen, Brosnan told GQ: “I saw the last one and I saw Skyfall. I love Skyfall.“I’m not too sure about the last one,” he added of No Time To Die, leaving the end of his sentence unfinished. “Daniel always gives of his heart.

GQ magazine in a cover interview. “I don’t care.”“It’ll be interesting to see who they get, who the man shall be,” he continued. “Whoever he be, I wish him well.”Brosnan was the fifth actor to land the role of Bond, after Timothy Dalton who appeared as the secret agent in two films.

Shalini Dore Features News Editor As with so many other organizations these past couple of years, the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation had been unable to meet in person. But on Wednesday, the charity, which provides assistance to theater workers, gathered at the Beverly Hilton to honor producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson as pioneers of the year. Presenting the award to the producers most famous for the James Bond franchise were Michelle Yeoh (“Tomorrow Never Dies”) and Daniel Craig, who starred as 007 in five of the films since 2006’s “Casino Royale.” “They just give and give, quietly and generously,” Craig said of Broccoli and Wilson’s philanthropic work. “They are like giving first responders. They see a problem and march right in.”