The project gave Tarantino the opportunity to accomplish many of the aims he originally had for Casino Royale. His third film became 1997's Jackie Brown, an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch.
If anybody wants to make a movie out of it, they got to come to us.''ĭeflated, Tarantino scrapped the project and turned his attention to adapting a different action novel. And so what they did is they just made a blanket deal with the Fleming estate and said that: 'We have the movie rights to everything he’s ever written. 'But then it turned out that the Broccolis three years earlier figured out somebody was going to try to do what I did. 'That’s what I wanted to do after Pulp Fiction,' he told Deadline. Working with Miramax at the time, Tarantino reached out to Ian Fleming's estate directly, under the understanding that they still owned the rights to Casino Royale.
