Tarantino Reveals New Info On His Failed Plan To Make A James Bond Movie
Years ago, Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino was said to be in the mix to potentially direct a James Bond movie, but it never worked out. Tarantino discussed this in an interview with Deadline, saying he was specifically trying to make a Casino Royale movie.
Tarantino said he was told that Eon, the company that owns the rights to James Bond movies, didn't have the rights to Casino Royale specifically. This is the reason why 1967's spy parody movie Casino Royale movie starring Woody Allen and Peter Sellers was able to exist outside the main series.
Tarantino and his team reached out to James Bond author Ian Fleming's people and inquired about making a Casino Royale film after 1994's Pulp Fiction.
«It would've taken place in the '60s and wasn't about a series of Bond movies. We would have cast an actor and be one and done. So I thought we could do this,» Tarantino said.
Unfortunately for Tarantino, 007 producer Barbara Broccoli was preparing for someone to try this and locked down a deal for all of Fleming's works, the filmmaker said.
«And so what they did is they just made a blanket deal with the Fleming estate and said that: 'We have the movie rights to everything he's ever written. We're going to just give you a bunch of money. This is for every single thing he's ever written. If anybody wants to make a movie out of it, they got to come to us,'» Tarantino said.
Tarantino could have pitched his idea to Broccoli, but he never had an actual meeting. That said, Tarantino said he was told by friends in the know that the studio did not want to risk it and sign him to direct.
«I was always told very flattering versions of like, 'Look, we love Quentin, but we make a certain kind of movies, and unless we f**k it up, we
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