Tarantino to direct a James Bond movie?

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Who knows, but http://www.killermovies.com/j/jamesbond21/articles/3848.html

As I recall, there's almost no action in Casino Royale the book beyond a tense game of Baccarat-- and Bond spends a good ten pages getting his testicles, which are hanging through a rend in a wicker chair, paddled by a carpet-beater. No joke.

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

ten pages!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to type "nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!", but actually this sounds like a good idea!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i doubt that this will happen. the Broccoli family tradition is to hold all the power in the producers' hands, not the director's, and, as such, they don't really go for big names.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Presumably it wouldn't be a very faithful remake anyway, right? The others aren't, for the most part (don't some of them use the name from the novel and nothing else? I know The Man With the Golden Gun isn't much like the book, even aside from casting Christopher Lee as "the short, redheaded Irishman" Scaramanga.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Out of all the Scaramangas in Ireland too!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

also, it wasn't until i took a film class on James Bond that i realized that "Tomorrow Never Dies" is a remake of "The Spy Who Loved Me"...

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, he's Circus Irish, Ned.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, this initially sounded silly but could be an excellent idea.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

And it sounds like it would bring back some much-needed sexual assault to the Bond franchise.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

also, it wasn't until i took a film class on James Bond that i realized that "Tomorrow Never Dies" is a remake of "The Spy Who Loved Me"...

Which in turns remakes You Only Live Twice. As compared to both those movies, Tomorrow is the most inferior thanks to the theme song:

YOLT = Nancy Sinatra/John Barry
TSWLM = Carly Simon/Marvin Hamlisch
TND = Sheryl Crow NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (who was chosen over Pulp, to add insult to injury)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

There was talk of making Clive Owen the Bond for this project a few years back, and making Paul Bettany the SMERSH agent/torturer, probably via his nasty role in Gangster No.1. Great choices, but they won't fly.

Tarantino would fuck it up on a scale beyond Moonraker.....

― js, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I still think that Clive Owen would work great, if he bulked up a little.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Spy Who Loved Me had more similarities with Thunderball?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't Clive Owen a little coarse? Maybe he's closer to the Bond of the books than of the movies. He has that creepy sensual thing about him.
I think Tarantino could be pretty great with Casino Royale. After all, it's mainly men in bars and offices talking with maximum pedantry about petty luxuries, with the ever-impending threat of violence hanging over it all. So who better?

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Bah — I've been saying for years that they should do a serious version of Casino Royale, set in the 50s as God intended. I didn't imagine Quentin Tarantino directing it, though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

If it was Tarantino, I'd hope that he'd want one of his regular actors as Bond. Like say, Sam Jackson?

"Muthafuckin' Bond. Mothafuckin' James Mothafuckin' Bond."

― chrisco (chrisco), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

this would be good, i think! and yeah i always thought clive owen would make a pretty dece bond!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Never Say Never Again is a direct re-make of Thunderball. Owen is icy, just like Bond in the novels. Other director? It'd be a stretch, but I'd say Mamet. He was the script doctor on Ronin (under a different name) and that movie is tight as hell!

― js, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Never Say Never Again is a direct re-make of Thunderball

Yup. (Same guy behind it both to an extent, Kevin McClory if I have his name right. Deal was that he and Fleming had idly discussed and planned some Bond film ideas before Broccoli and Saltzman, ie Danjaq, secured the rights, and McClory has been pressing his claim since then, to sporadic effect. Thunderball initially grew out of a screen treatment done by Fleming and McClory with another writer -- this is specifically mentioned in the copyright page of my copy of the book -- and as such was what McClory was using as ammunition in the extended legal battle. Eventually he and Danjaq settled on a one-off arrangement where McClory is listed as official coproducer of Thunderball, but Danjaq otherwise pressed ahead claiming itself as sole possessor of the rights. I don't know the full story behind McClory roping in Connery for Never Say Never Again as a one-off for him, but to keep things easy they did indeed remake Thunderball, with a couple of updates and minor changes (and actually one of the better bond villians in Klaus Maria Brandeur, I hope I have the spelling right. A few years back I heard McClory, in the wake of the official franchise revival with Brosnan, was in talks with Sony to try and do more Bond things, but that seems to have died on the vine.)

Why yes I am something of a Bond aficionado.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Spy Who Loved Me had more similarities with Thunderball?

Nope, it's definitely YOLT. (Think about it: instead of space capsules being captured, it's submarines...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

As an afficionado, you will agree that Never Say Never Again was pish, yes?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

At the time in my callow youth I liked it, I probably couldn't stand it these days. Haven't seen it in over a decade or more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

if something could be done with his accent, the croatian guy on ER would make a great bond, I think.

― dave k, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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