 On Her Majesty 's Secret Service was the intended next film , but the producers decided to adapt You Only Live Twice instead because <unk> would require searching for high and <unk> locations . Lewis Gilbert originally declined the offer to direct , but accepted after producer Albert R. Broccoli called him saying : " You can 't give up this job . It 's the largest audience in the world . " Peter R. Hunt , who edited the first five Bond films , believed that Gilbert had been contracted by the producers for other work but they found they had to use him . 
