Quentin Tarantino Says James Bond Producers Barred His Casino Royale Adaptation

There is little doubt that Quentin Tarantino is a man with many ideas and plans for the limited number of films he will work on in his career. Interestingly, there was a time when the Reservoir Dogs director was planning to adapt Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. However, he was stopped by James Bond producers.

Quentin Tarantino Shares Failed Plans for Casino Royale Adaptation

Quentin Tarantino recently spoke to Deadline where he revealed that he had plans to adapt Casino Royale before Eon Productions owned the rights to the James Bond book.

"We reached out to the Ian Fleming people, and they had suggested that they still own the rights to Casino Royale," Tarantino revealed.

"And that's what I wanted to do after Pulp Fiction was do my version of Casino Royale, and it would've taken place in the '60s and wasn't about a series of Bond movies," he continued.

"We would have cast an actor and be one and done. So I thought we could do this," Tarantino said.

Unfortunately for Quentin Tarantino, the current James Bond producers were several steps ahead of him.

"But then it turned out that the Broccolis three years earlier figured out somebody was going to try to do what I did," he 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 revealed.

Quentin Tarantino confirmed that he never got to meet with the Broccolis but he learned about the plans from some trusted sources.

"I had people who knew them and everything," he said.

"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-ck it up, we make a billion dollars every time we make that type of movie, okay? We don't want him to do it. Doesn't matter that it will still do good. It could f-ck up our billion-dollar thing,'" Tarantino shared.

Casino Royale was written by Ian Fleming in 1953 and it received a parody film of the same title in 1967. Eon Productions would release a more serious adaptation starring Daniel Craig in 2006.

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