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Quentin Tarantino told SciFi Wire that he’s been talking to Pierce Brosnan about doing a remake of 007 flick “Casino Royale”. The film would mark Brosnan’s fifth and final James Bond film. He has to convince the Bond producers of it first though.
"I don’t see that they have anything to lose at all," Tarantino says. "They’ve got this gigantic franchise, they can’t do anything wrong with it. Pierce Brosnan’s only going to do one more movie for them, if that, so if he stayed on to do one more with me, let’s just this one year go my way and do it a little differently. I won’t do anything that will ruin the series."
"Wouldn’t it be great to have a James Bond movie that didn’t cost $115 million and only cost $40 million or something like that?" he asked. "You know it’s going to make its money back, and we [would] all do good. Maybe we win the critics this time, then you’re back in business the way you were before."
Tarantino felt there was only "a thin chance" that he would win the project, and said he would concede to update the 1952 novel for the present day. "If I owned the material, I would set it in the ’60s, but I’m sure I’d have to do it now."
Empire Online – via CHUD – adds that Tarantino is thinking of doing an animated prequel to “Kill Bill”, as well. It would concentre on the character of Nikki, Nikki, the young girl whose mother was killed by the Bride in Vol 1. “Yeah, I’ve been thinking about revisiting the story in a couple of ways,” said the director. Another idea Tarantino says he has is “thinking about doing it as an anime feature that would tell the entire origin of Bill.”
