Quentin Tarantino planning to make spy series to rival Bond

[James]

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Quentin Tarantino planning to make spy series to rival James Bond

QUENTIN Tarantino wants to create a film series to rival James Bond, with the Pulp Fiction planning already to adapt three spy thriller novels. The American director is planning to adapt three spy thriller novels by British writer Len Deighton into a movie series which will attract fans of the British secret agent’s on screen adventures.

Tarantino explained: “One of the things I enjoy musing about doing is the trilogy of Len Deighton books, Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match.

“The story takes place in the Cold War and follows a spy named Bernard Sampson. What is attractive is the really great characters and the wonderful casting.”

The Inglourious Basterds filmmaker also revealed he has a list of British actors he’d love to work with, including How To Lose Friends and Alienate People star Simon Pegg, and is keen to shoot a film in the UK in the near future.

Tarantino, 46, added in an interview with Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “I am a huge fan of Simon Pegg. I also think Kate Winslet is the best actress that ever lived, so I would be honoured to work with her.

“I am also a huge admirer of Anthony Hopkins. I would also love to work with Michael Caine. I can see them appearing in my movies.”
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[katied]

LOL..can you say FAIL. I seriously doubt that any of the people he mentioned would even take his phone calls.

[Kristatos]

LOL..can you say FAIL. I seriously doubt that any of the people he mentioned would even take his phone calls.

I bet Pegg would.

[katied]

Well,Pegg was in Star Trek, which was a hit, and that movie with Kirsten Dunst, which wasn't.His career trajectory is similar to Tarantino's.


Quention needs to wait and see if Inglorious Basterds is even a hit before he thinks about his next project. The fact that he's actively looking for something to do makes you wonder what his financial situation is like.

[Dr. No]

The fact that he's actively looking for something to do makes you wonder what his financial situation is like.

How did Craig come in to it? Oh I you meant Tarantino


Ok its put up or shut up time, and I think he owns Pierce a shot after talking up his CR and Pierce so much.
Isn't there another spy franchise starting up with... I want to say Spielberg.

[katied]

Ugh I can't wait to see what sort of spin Hackantino puts on the Len Deighton books.

[Dr. No]

Ugh I can't wait to see what sort of spin Hackantino puts on the Len Deighton books.

I am not familiar with those books are they any good?

[katied]

Never read any of them. I think my parents might have read some of them long upon a time ago though.

[Dr. No]

I looked him up. He is still alive
Hum they made series of this before.

Leonard Cyril Deighton (born 18 February 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British military historian, cookery writer, and novelist. He is perhaps most famous for his spy novel The IPCRESS File, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine.

Bibliography

* 1962 - The IPCRESS File
* 1963 - Horse Under Water
* 1964 - Funeral in Berlin
* 1965 - Où Est le Garlic
* 1965 - Len Deighton's Action Cookbook
* 1966 - Billion-Dollar Brain
* 1967 - An Expensive Place to Die
* 1967 - Len Deighton's London Dossier
* 1968 - Only When I Larf
* 1970 - Bomber
* 1971 - Declarations of War
* 1972 - Spy Story
* 1972 - Close-Up
* 1975 - Yesterday's Spy
* 1976 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (aka Catch a Falling Spy)
* 1977 - Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain
* 1978 - SS-GB
* 1978 - Airshipwreck (with Arnold Schwartzman)
* 1979 - Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
* 1979 - Basic French Cooking
* 1980 - Battle of Britain



* 1981 - XPD
* 1982 - Goodbye, Mickey Mouse
* 1983 - Berlin Game
* 1984 - Mexico Set
* 1985 - London Match
* 1987 - Winter
* 1988 - Spy Hook
* 1989 - Spy Line
* 1989 - ABC of French Food
* 1990 - Spy Sinker
* 1990 - Basic French Cookery Course
* 1991 - MAMista
* 1992 - City of Gold
* 1993 - Violent Ward
* 1993 - Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
* 1994 - Faith
* 1995 - Hope
* 1996 - Charity
* 2006 - Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Swindle (short story included in 'The Detection Club' anthology 'The Verdict of Us All', edited by Peter Lovesey)

Berlin Game

Plot summary

A highly-placed double agent in East Germany codenamed "Brahms Four" wants to come to the West. Brahms Four is one of Britain's most reliable, most valuable agents behind the Iron Curtain, and that he should be urgently demanding safe passage to the West sends a ripple of panic through the SIS. Bernard Samson, a former field agent, and now working behind a London desk, is tasked to undertake the crucial rescue. After all, it was Brahms Four who had once, nearly twenty years ago, saved his life.

But even before Samson sets out on his mission, he is confronted with undeniable evidence that there is a traitor among his colleagues — a traitor planted by the KGB. Clearly, it is someone close to the top, close to Samson himself. It could by Dicky Cruyer, his incompetent supervisor - whom Samson despises. It could be the American Bret Rensselaer, who has built his entire career around the work of Brahms Four — and who is spending an inordinate amount of time with Samson's wife, Fiona (also an intelligence officer). It could be Frank Harrington, the 'rezident' - or head of the Berlin field unit. In fact, it could be any member of the senior staff at London Central — even the Director-General himself.

Bernard travels to East Berlin to assist the escape of Brahms Four, and decides at the last moment to send Brahms Four out in his place. His suspicions of treachery prove well-founded when he is captured and subsequently confronted by his wife, who had defected and betrayed the operation.

Mexico Set

Plot summary

The trouble begins in Mexico, where Samson is on the trail of his Soviet opposite number: Erich Stinnes, a KGB major whom London Central wishes to recruit, to enroll, to coax over to the West...

The task of laying the delicate and elaborate groundwork for Stinnes' defection propels Samson from Mexico to London, to Paris, Berlin, and the East-West border. What happens along the way—a temporary abduction, an unnecessary murder, an inconvenient suicide—happens so fast that Samson hardly seems able to keep London Central informed of developments. Or is it that Samson wants to keep his colleagues in the dark? Certainly London Central's entire senior staff—from Samson's immediate supervisors, locked in their endless internecine office warfare, to the dotty Director-General himself—would have reason to suspect that Samson might be working for the other side. He was, after all, closer than any of the other to the former traitor-in-their-midst...

And Samson himself is losing control—indeed, events seem to be controlling him. As he finds himself in a series of ever more incriminating positions, as one by one the avenues of escape or vindication close before him, the novel winds back toward Mexico.. and toward the astonishing climax - at the scene of the defection Samson has so painstakingly orchestrated—in which the allegiances of all involved are finally and fatefully revealed.

London Match
London Match concludes the story that began with Berlin Game, where Bernard Samson's wife Fiona was unmasked as a KGB double agent and was forced into defecting, and that was continued in Mexico Set, where Bernard Samson assisted the defection of Erich Stinnes, his KGB opposite number.

Samson suspects that there is a traitor within his department of MI6, due to the appearance of a memorandum which was leaked to the KGB. It transpires that it is part of a plot conducted by his wife - now working for East German intelligence - to frame his superior, Bret Rensselaer, as a KGB agent. When Samson's old friend Werner Volkmann is arrested by the East German police Samson organizes an unauthorised exchange of defector Erich Stinnes for him, but the operation ends in a shootout on the Berlin S-Bahn.

[katied]

Judging from the descriptions of the books, there is a lot there that Quentin could screw up

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

That would be a wonderful idea. Now that Eon have stopped making Bond movies, someone could step in and make a spy series like the old Bond one with a handsome suave spy and all the other many Bond staples.

The original Harry Palmer trilogy was great; there were a few TV movies starring Caine again as Palmer in the 1990's. I'm surprised that no-one has brought Harry Palmer back with a new actor.

[FormerBondFan]

The fact that he's actively looking for something to do makes you wonder what his financial situation is like.

How did Craig come in to it? Oh I you meant Tarantino


Ok its put up or shut up time, and I think he owns Pierce a shot after talking up his CR and Pierce so much.
Isn't there another spy franchise starting up with... I want to say Spielberg.

I would like to see Pierce work with Spielberg.

[Dr. No]

The fact that he's actively looking for something to do makes you wonder what his financial situation is like.

How did Craig come in to it? Oh I you meant Tarantino


Ok its put up or shut up time, and I think he owns Pierce a shot after talking up his CR and Pierce so much.
Isn't there another spy franchise starting up with... I want to say Spielberg.

I would like to see Pierce work with Spielberg.

I think that is who it is but I can't remember what character

[Kristatos]

Meanwhile, Inglourious Basterds seems to have been well-received, with 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

[katied]

Meanwhile, Inglourious Basterds seems to have been well-received, with 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Heh the ads have me wanting to see it(and I'm not a fan of Tarantino's ),so I am going to see it this afternoon.


I think what annoys me about Tarantino is that he makes a sub par movie(the one he made with Robert Rodriguez comes right to mind), and yet people praise him to the high heavens. The flips side to that though is that for all the people that say "ah, he's a genius", there are plenty of people who have NO problems telling you what's wrong with his movies.

[Kristatos]

I think what annoys me about Tarantino is that he makes a sub par movie(the one he made with Robert Rodriguez comes right to mind), and yet people praise him to the high heavens.

Do you mean Grindhouse? I don't think it was praised, in fact I seem to remember it being slammed when it came out, at least QT's half of it (RR's was rather better received, I think, though many of the reviews I read said that the spoof trailers in between the two halves, particularly Edgar Wright's, were the best part of the movie). I haven't seen it, so I can't comment.

[katied]

There were a lot of people that liked it..there's a guy who was on the radio out here who can't-indeeed won't- say anything bad about Quentin Tarantino-and not to be b!tchy, but I swear, Miramax must pay him to big up Tarantino, even when he makes bad films.