‘Look, we love Quentin, but…’: Why Tarantino never made James Bond

James Bond’s Casino Royale, which hit theaters in 2006, could have had a completely different look. Daniel Craig couldn’t be cast as 007 after Henry Cavill’s amazing audition, and Eva Green could see Vesper Lind slip under her nose after her first completely unsuccessful attempts.

But this adventure of a famous agent could have been even more different if Quentin Tarantino managed to direct it. Because yes, QT, who could have brought together the iconic duo from his filmography for his latest flick, had a crazy urge to bring the romance to the screen. Casino Royale By Ian Fleming.

Unfortunately, As Tarantino recently told DeadlineThe road was strewn with traps and no deal was made… “What happened was I tried to do something and it didn’t work.”– says the filmmaker, somewhat disappointed.

In the mid-90s, Tarantino tried his best to make a James Bond movie. “We contacted the rights holders of Ian Fleming and they suggested that they still had the rights to Casino Royale.”he says. “Ever since then I’ve wanted to do my own version of Casino Royale Pulp Fiction. The action would be in the 60s and the idea would not be to make a series of films: we would choose an actor who would play the role once and that was it. I thought I could do it. “

But then why did the case fall apart? “It turned out that Rock (007 Saga Producers, Editor’s Note)Three years ago he realized that someone was trying to do what I did.explains the film director. “So they signed an absolute deal with the Fleming estate, a deal that meant they had the film rights to everything Ian Fleming wrote. They gave them a lot of money. (…) To make a film adapted from Ian Fleming, you. They had to go through “.

So Broccoli, according to Tarantino, blocked everything related to 007. Would they still wish that the director of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood had signed on for a franchise film? It is not known, if we judge by the words of the American film director.

“I knew people who knew them”– says Tarantino. “I’ve always heard people say flattering things about me. ‘Look, we love Quentin, but we’re making a certain type of movie, and if we don’t do really stupid things, we’re going to make a billion dollars every time. one! So we don’t want him to do Bond. No matter how good the movie is, there is a risk that it will ruin our billion-dollar business!'”

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