Jackie Brown also gave Tarantino the opportunity to cast his star Pam Grier in a role worthy of her talents, similarly to how he planned on utilizing Brosnan. Michael Keaton was so good in the role of Ray Nicolette that he reprized the role in Steven Sodobergh's Out of Sight. Not only was it his first book-to-screen adaptation, but it also saw him create a one-off story from an author's franchise universe. 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. Enjoy offers and invitations to special events and tournaments, VIP seating at shows, priority dining reservations, and even complimentary cruises for two. Earn more points, enjoy more perks from Casino Royale. 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. When you join the Club Royale rewards program, you’ll earn points every time you play. '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.

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