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Quentin Tarantino reflects on almost tackling James Bond in ‘Casino Royale’

007 is the one franchise Tarantino wanted in on, but on his .

especially given his recent comments on Marvel films and their respective directors. Once upon a time, however, the Pulp Fiction filmmaker had his eyes on 007, but it didn’t work out.

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Back in 1994, after making Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino was interested in adapting the first ever James Bond book by Ian Fleming Casino Royale. In an interview with Deadline, the 59-year-old looks back on the Tarantino Bond film that never was.

The rights to Casino Royale, which Tarantino says everyone believed was “unfilmable”, were not owned by EON, the production company behind every single Bond film, up until 1999. The Pulp Fiction director believes that if things had stayed that way he might have made his own Casino Royale adaptation after all, but he missed his window.

“[EON] anticipated somebody like me, coming at them from a backdoor situation. So they did a thing with Ian Fleming’s estate and they go, ‘Look, we’re buying the rights to everything that Ian Fleming has his name on. So nobody can do what this Tarantino character is trying to do or what this Tarantino character is going to try to do a couple years from now.'”

Tarantino is not interested in answering to any other creative authorities over his own films, and that goes for Marvel, Disney, or, in the case of 007, EON. It’s obvious that Tarantino’s James Bond would be significantly different from the Martin Campbell, Daniel Craig-led, version. And, unfortunately, it’s one we will never get to see.

There are no regrets on Tarantino’s side, though, since there is no point crying over spilled milk. He went on to make Jackie Brown and Kill Bill instead. “I don’t think I wish I had done any of these movies, more than the movies that I ultimately chose doing,” Tarantino said.

Looking towards the future instead, the famed director is working on a limited series, which he has already finished writing, and plans to direct too. It’s expected to begin production sometime this year.


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Francisca is a pop culture enthusiast and film expert. Her Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences from Nova University in Portugal and Master's Degree in Film Studies from Oxford Brookes University in the UK have allowed her to combine her love for writing with her love for the movies. She has been a freelance writer and content creator for five years, working in both the English and Portuguese languages for various platforms, including WGTC.