Ed Sheeran has revealed he was dropped from penning a track for the James Bond movie No Time to Die when he was already within the strategy of writing it.
The Shape of You singer, 31, was apparently picked to jot down the movie’s theme when British director Danny Boyle was hooked up to the undertaking, however was swiftly dropped when American filmmaker Cary Joki Fukunaga took over.
Sheeran revealed that when Fukunaga got here to the undertaking, American artist Billie Eilish was all of the sudden introduced on board to jot down and document the theme track, additionally titled No Time To Die.
Eilish went on to win an Oscar and Grammy for the track, which she co-wrote with her brother, Finneas O’Connell.
Watch the interview with Ed Sheeran above.
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“You’ve got to eventually, as an English singer, want to do a Bond song,” a disgruntled Sheeran mentioned on the That Peter Crouch Podcast.
“I was within a f–king gnat’s pube of doing one, and they changed directors, and then they just changed scripts and that was it – all the meetings, it was all done. I had started writing it.”
But Sheeran mentioned he would not look badly on a second probability to jot down a theme for a 007 movie.
“I’m not going to pretend it didn’t hurt not doing it. If they come back, I’ll be like, “Yeah, yeah, after all.”
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So far, some of the recent British singers who have written or performed Bond themes include Adele for Skyfall, Sam Smith for Writing’s on the Wall and Alicia Keys for Another Way to Die.
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