'But once I heard Brosnan isn't going to be doing any more Bond films, that killed it as far as I was concerned.' 2. 'I would have liked to do Casino Royale with Pierce Brosnan,' he said a few months later. Tabloid rumours even linked frequent Quentin collaborator Uma Thurman to the part of Bond's tragic love Vesper Lynd, but when Pierce officially exited the franchise in October 2004, Tarantino lost interest.
Tarantino's version, like the Craig adaptation, was planned as a fairly faithful adaptation of Fleming's book - though presumably without the whole 'rookie 007' angle.
