In a way I can see what you are talking about. Quentin himself originally talked about it being a one off character-driven movie.Omega wrote:After watching Inglourious Basterds for like the 10th time on my iPod I think Quentin Tarantino would have made a kick ass Casino Royale.
He has his weak points and his detractors. But he knows how to tell a story and I think he captured the old proud Brit feel with the English agent sent to France. He made a believable team of Basterds and the french resistance girl was total believable. His 1940s is completely believable and I think he could have captured the feel of Fleming's Bond period piece on not.
Does anyone who has seen Basterds Disagree?
IB is a slow paced movie with several character-driven plots drivng towords one goal, in a way Fleming's CR is the same sort of WWII fantasy playing out in 1953 with Commies instead of Nazis.
I think if QT had mad CR the Bulgarians would have blown themselves up as they should and maybe it he would have used the chapter breaks with Fleming chapter titles.
Could be the reason the wonder twins didn't look twice at QT aside from lifting his ideas is he wanted to make it for under $100m (QT made IB for 70m, grindhouse 67m, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 30m each), part of their graft is in the production costs so that might not have made it enticing to them. And QT and Brozza's frustration in public making Babs and Mikey look clueless and uncertain of what to do with their franchise might not have endeared them to the Eon brass either.
