Lots of artists have written music for films and TV shows, but only a select few have been tasked with crafting a theme song for a James Bond movie. In 1973, McCartney was approached by Ron Kass, a former executive for the Beatles' Apple Records who was then working with Harry Saltzman, coproducer of the first nine James Bond films. It was Kass who suggested McCartney for the job of writing the Live and Let Die theme, but McCartney played it cool. "Writing a Bond song is a bit of an accolade," McCartney recalled in his book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present. Denis Villeneuve is slated to direct the next movie, though it's not clear which actor will play Bond, when the movie will be released or who will write the theme song.