Tarantino pissed off over new BOND
January 9th, 2006 by Cinema Eye
Remember awhile back when we told you that Quentin Tarantino was in talks to direct the next Bond film? Well, apparently the producers have gone ahead on the project without him and he’s not too happy about it.
I’m annoyed that the James Bond producers never even called me up to talk to me about it because I can tell you they would not be making CASINO ROYALE if I hadn’t talked about it first. They should have called me. Especially since they are taking my idea and they are taking the publicity I gave them towards that idea. They should have at least out of courtesy had coffee with me.
It’s too bad this opportunity was lost because a Tarantino Bond film would have been incredible. At least Tarantino had this weekend’s HOSTEL grosses to cheer him up. (Via: MoviesOnline)
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To put it bluntly, Tarantino is a pretty damned good director, in fact one of my top five of all time, but James Bond isn’t an inner-city method killer with an eye for low budget tools and he can’t survive without the intricate subliminal sexual connotations that are represented in the last 20 films. He isn’t a deep, brooding character with a terrible past that needs definition beyond the lines of the story and he isn’t ready to be “demoralized” by Tarantino to fit the mold that Tarantino’s films all fill. Bond is not an overtly or unprovoked violent person without exasperation and the legions of fans would immediately see, feel and taste the unlikely character transformations that are a part of Tarantino’s repertoire.
No, James Bond is, and always will be an upper-crust Brit with a silver spoon in his arse, an Aston Martin (or better) sports car on the drive and a 45’ yacht outfitted with a premium radar, sonar and satellite link circling the “target” of the storyline. For 40 years Bond has made perfect sense and to bloody him up, no pun intended, by making him Americanized would simply dilute the last hundred books, films and ideas about the upper-crust British spy without a care except meeting the goal, getting the girl and going back home. A low-budget Bond would be like remaking Reservoir Dogs with Girl Scouts; it is just a bad fit. Besides, who wants to hear “M” speaking with a Jersey slang?