“The name’s Bond, James Bond.” “What! My name is also Bond, James Bond, but from a different, sexier universe!” is almost certainly not dialogue that Black Bag director Steven Soderbergh would have chosen to add to his James Bond movies had he been given the reins to the spy franchise many years ago. Still, he had some ideas that would have at least made it possible.“I had pitched in 2008 the idea to Barbara Broccoli of a parallel franchise,” Soderbergh revealed to The Playlist. “Set in the ’60s, R-rated, violent, sexy. Fictional backstory to real historical events, different actor, different universe.”cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});Soderbergh recalled wanting to make this Bond project on a low budget, which would have been an interesting approach given the franchise’s notable costs and showy action set pieces. Broccoli was intrigued by the idea, he said, but it didn’t get any traction, and though the auteur would get another chance to pitch a bigger budget Bond movie post-Skyfall, he couldn’t quite let go of his first idea.“So, when I got back into the conversation [a few years] later, then I was pitching a twofer. Which was, ‘Yeah, I’ll do the contemporary extravaganza. But I also want to do the other one, after,’” he said, adding, “I was like, ‘I want to do both, I have ideas for both. But it’s all or nothing. You’ve either got to do both of them, you can’t have just one or the other,’ and I think that was just—that was a little aggressive.”Two swings and two misses from Soderbergh, then, but perhaps he was ahead of his time when wondering if an iconic character could be played by two separate actors in different movie universes with different vibes at the same time. Would audiences be fine with that these days? Well, we’re about to find out, not through the shaken martinis and classic British cars of James Bond, but over at the Batcave, where Bruce Wayne is to be played by Robert Pattinson in the Elseworlds-partitioned Batman films and an entirely different actor in Andy Muschietti’s The Brave and the Bold over at DC. The post Soderbergh Reveals Wild Plan to Split James Bond Into Two Universes appeared first on Den of Geek.