“We don’t tell him to calm down”: Pierce Brosnan Reveals His Secret Meeting With Quentin Tarantino for Unmade James Bond Movie Before Daniel Craig Replaced Him

Quentin Tarantino has done a great contribution to the film industry who had eyes on the James Bond franchise as well. Given his filmography style, it would have been quite interesting to see him directing a project in the famous spy franchise. It was even confirmed by Pierce Brosnan that the former was planning to especially star him on the unmade project.

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The Pulp Fiction director had even thought it to be a period piece and personally pitched the film to the latter. He wanted his project to be a black-and-white film set in the 1950s or 1960s.

Quentin Tarantino Wanted His James Bond Project to be a Period Piece!

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Quentin Tarantino had plans to make Casino Royale a period piece that would be set in the 1950s or 60s. He was particular about starring Pierce Brosnan in the 007 role who was his favorite spy. The unmade film would have been the Casino Royale novel’s adaptation.

Not just that, he was also planning it to be a sequel to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. He briefly discussed it in an old interview with New York magazine stating,

He was confident about subverting the franchise with his version and even pitched the idea to Brosnan. But it didn’t come to fruition.

Quentin Tarantino Pitched to Pierce Brosnan

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The Irish actor in an interview with Toronto Sun opened up about his meeting with the filmmaker in the early 2000s regarding his unmade project.

“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. I got there at 7:00 P.M., I like to be punctual. 7:15 came around, no Quentin, he was upstairs doing press.”

He continued,

“Someone sent over a martini, so I had a martini, and I waited till 7:30, and I thought, where the heck is he? Word came down, apologies, so I thought, okay, I’ll have another martini.”

He recalled,

“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 pitched that idea to Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G. Wilson, who were the brain behind the famous James Bond franchise.

“He wanted to do James Bond, and I went back to the shop and told them but it wasn’t mean to be.” Brosnan added. “No Quentin Tarantino for James Bond.”

His project never got the green light. As for Brosnan, he portrayed the role till 2002 in four Bond films. Daniel Craig took over the role in 2006’s Casino Royale which was a reboot of the franchise.

All of the classic Bond movies are streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Source: Toronto Sun