Quentin Tarantino directing a James Bond movie? It could have happened. During a recent watchalong of his first 007 outing, GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan revealed that Tarantino drunkenly pitched him his ideas post-Die Another Day. Of course, martinis were involved…
“It was after Kill Bill Vol. 2, and [Tarantino] 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 on the Esquire stream. “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.’”
This already sounds like the start of a great story but, unfortunately, Brosnan didn’t regale us with further details of how many drinks were downed – other than the fact they were both “fairly smokered”.
Then, Tarantino got down to brass tacks. In typical fashion, he wasn’t subtle: “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,” teased Brosnan.
While Brosnan doesn’t open up on what exactly a Tarantino-helmed Bond would have looked like, he does say he went “back to the shop” – presumably producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli – with the idea.
