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04-05-2004, 10:40 PM
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Tarantino wants to do Casino Royale with Brosnan
Interesting news bit from Scifi.com. What do you think?
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09:00am ET, 5-April-04
Tarantino, Brosnan Want Royale
Quentin Tarantino told SCI FI Wire that he has talked to Pierce Brosnan about adapting Casino Royale as Brosnan's fifth and final James Bond film. The director noted that his challenge would be to convince producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli to diverge from the current formula of expensive action set pieces.
"I don't see that they have anything to lose at all," Tarantino said in an interview while promoting his latest film, Kill Bill, Vol. 2. "They've got this gigantic franchise, they can't do anything wrong with it. Pierce Brosnan's only going to do one more movie for them, if that, so if he stayed on to do one more with me, let's just this one year go my way and do it a little differently. I won't do anything that will ruin the series."
Tarantino hopes that the offer of a low budget and Brosnan's return would convince the producers to approve a one-time-only return to the character-driven spy plots of the first several 007 films. "Wouldn't it be great to have a James Bond movie that didn't cost $115 million and only cost $40 million or something like that?" he asked. "You know it's going to make its money back, and we [would] all do good. Maybe we win the critics this time, then you're back in business the way you were before."
Tarantino felt there was only "a thin chance" that he would win the project, and said he would concede to update the 1952 novel for the present day. "If I owned the material, I would set it in the '60s, but I'm sure I'd have to do it now." Casino Royale was first adapted as a comedy in 1967.
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04-06-2004, 12:24 AM
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Sounds very cool. It'd be a nice direction to take the films in even if it is one time only. After the big budget mess of Die another Day, they could use a little break.
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04-06-2004, 12:52 AM
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If it's like the early Connery Bond films, I'm all for it. "From Russia With Love" is what every Bond flick should aspire to be.
Of course, there is the question of whether Tarantino could pull off a PG-13 rated movie. 
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04-06-2004, 12:58 AM
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If this pans out, this could be the GREATEST James Bond film by far (and this coming from a MAJOR fan of the "original" Royale, the true inspiration for Austin Powers and so much more). 
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04-06-2004, 04:57 AM
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Indeed. but now it would almost fall into that "like Austin Powers" ideal. I know that it sounds silly since Casino Royale was the original to begin with, but it is definitely going to look that way to the under 30 crowd. When they rereleased the Flint series on DVD, they called it "the original man of mystery" basically trying to relate it to Austin Powers. It will be hard for this to really sell as a "genuine" James Bond.
I've always felt that Casino Royale was the outcast of the James Bond line (it was not released with the other rereleased Bond titles). It would be nice to get full recognition in the mythology of Bond, after all these years.
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04-06-2004, 05:38 AM
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um you guys do realise that Tarantino is referring to the first James Bond novel written in the 1950's and not the silly overblown Peter Sellers comedy of 1967?
I think it's a great idea, if it ever happened. The franchise could do with an injection of realism, no more ice-surfing please!
Casino Royale contains a very painful torture sequence, which is right up Tarantino's alley, I wonder if that would have been included. 
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04-06-2004, 08:44 AM
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This is one of the better novels. It needs to be done as a "period piece".
OK, who do you want to play Vesper Lynd?
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04-06-2004, 08:48 AM
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I thought Inglorious Bastards was QTs next and that half the cast was locked and expecting to shoot next year. When is he expecting to have the time to do this?
Wishful thinking.
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04-06-2004, 09:35 AM
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When is he expecting to have the time to do this?
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He's not expecting anything. He's been talking about this at least since Pulp Fiction came out, and he knows full well that the Bond producers don't allow non-British to direct Bond films. If they told Spielberg to go away after he talked about his dreams of doing a Bond movie way back when, I think it's pretty unlikely that they'll ever give Tarantino a shot |
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04-06-2004, 11:08 AM
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I agree that the closest Tarentino could get to James Bond is his appearances on Alias. But the cool thing about this story is that it brings to light another voice that may or may not influence the people at EON Productions to bring Bond back to it's simpler roots of the Connery era. A return to From Russia with Love or OHMSS would be cool. They don't need to keep doing the same thing and try to top the last film.
The director of the first Matt Daman Bourne Identity film, Doug Liman could be an interesting choice. But he may not want to go that route.
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