I do like these Tarantino throw away comments leading to "What is".
My favourite was his idea for a 60s set one-off Bond story with Pierce Brosnan back for Casino Royale.
Tarantino tried to get the rights before they brought Daniel Craig in but the producers weren't interested.
This was Brosnans version of meeting him.
“It was after Kill Bill Vol 2, and he wanted to meet me, so I went up to Hollywood one day from the beach, and I met him at the Four Seasons,” Brosnan said.
“I got there at 7pm, I like to be punctual. 7.15pm came around, no Quentin, he was upstairs doing press. Someone sent over a martini, so I had a martini, and I waited till 7.30pm, and I thought, where the heck is he? Word came down, apologies, so I thought, okay, I’ll have another martini.”
When Tarantino did eventually arrive, Brosnan admitted that he was rather drunk, and that once the director joined him for a martini or two, they were both “fairly snokkered”.
“He was pounding the table, saying you’re the best James Bond, I wanna do James Bond, and it was very close quarters in the restaurant and I thought, please calm down, but we don’t tell Quentin Tarantino to calm down,” Brosnan said.
While he did not reveal any specifics for Tarantino’s vision of a Bond film, he said he “went back to the shop” and told showrunners but “it wasn’t meant to be”.
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