She poses as a radio seller, working with secret agent Rene Mathis, and later as Bond's companion to infiltrate the casino in Royale-Les-Eaux, where Le Chiffre frequently gambles. She is lent to Bond, much to his irritation, to assist him in his mission to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster of a SMERSH-controlled trade union. Vesper works at MI6 headquarters as a personal assistant to the Head of Section S. In 1993, journalist Donald McCormick claimed that Fleming based Vesper on Polish agent Krystyna Skarbek, who was working for Special Operations Executive when he knew her. The actual name for the drink (as well as its complete recipe) was mentioned on screen for the first time in the 2006 film adaptation of Casino Royale. The ' Vesper' became popular after the novel's publication. In the novel, the character explains that she was born 'on a very stormy evening', and that her parents named her 'Vesper', Latin for 'evening' and Bond then gives her name to a cocktail he has recently invented. She was portrayed by Ursula Andress in the 1967 James Bond parody, which is only slightly based on the novel, and by Eva Green in the 2006 film adaptation. 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.Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale. 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.

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.

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