Tarantino approached Brosnan for potential ‘James Bond’ movie

QUENTIN Tarantino approached Pierce Brosnan for a potential ‘James Bond’ movie.

The 57-year-old filmmaker has made no secret about wanting to work on his own version of ‘Casino Royale’ with the 66year-old actor - who played Ian Fleming’s fictional spy four times between 1995 and 2002 - and he even pitched the project in 2004.

Speaking during a ‘Goldeneye’ watchalong for Esquire UK, Brosnan revealed: “It was after ‘Kill Bill Vol. 2’, and wanted to meet me.

“And I went up into Hollywood one day, from the beach, and I met him at the Four Seasons. I got there at 7 o’clock. I like to be punctual, I’m always punctual.

“7:15 came round, no Quentin; he was upstairs doing press on ‘Kill Bill’. And someone sent over a martini, so I had the martini.

“I waited, it was 7:30, I thought, ‘Where the heck is he?’ Word came down, ‘Apologies’, so I thought, ‘ Well, I’ll have another [Quentin] martini.’ “

Tarantino later joined Brosnan as the pair got “snockered” on martinis - and the ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ director revealed his 007 ambitions.

The actor continued: “Eventually he came down, and he started ordering apple martinis. Well... we were fairly snockered.

“I was fairly snockered, but he did. He was pounding the table, saying, ‘ You are the best James Bond! I wanna do ‘James Bond’ with you!’ and it was very close quarters in the restaurant.

“I said, ‘ Quentin, please, calm down, calm down.’ But, you don’t tell Quentin Tarantino to calm down.”

Although Brosnan admitted he’d still love to work on a spy movie with the filmmaker, at the time bosses decided to pass on the idea.

He explained: “Anyway, he wanted to do ‘James Bond’. I went back to the shop and told them, but it wasn’t meant to be.

“No Quentin Tarantino for ‘James Bond’. What a shame. That would be a good one to watch.” — Bang Showbiz