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Alfonso Cuarón on Why He Turned Down Directing a Bond Movie After Having Dinner With Joel Coen
Alfonso Cuarón during an onstage conversation in Marrakech revealed that he turned down directing a Bond movie after having dinner with Joel Coen.
Alfonso Cuarón had the audience of the Marrakech Film Festival in stitches during a wide-ranging conversation in which he revealed that he had never read a Harry Potter book before shooting “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” He also recalled turning down an offer to shoot a James Bond movie after having dinner with Joel Coen. Asked by Moroccan directors Alaa Eddine Aljem and Talal Selhami how he managed to put his personal stamp on the third “Harry Potter” film which, the moderators noted, is considered by many fans the best installment in the franchise, Cuarón replied that he basically had to pay the bills. It was a really pleasant experience.” And another great consequence of that experience is that right after “Harry Potter,” Warner Bros. then wanted to do “Children of Men.”
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