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the dead bodies of a string of slightly dim foreign women, James Bond's DNA
can be found in most spy films released within the last fifty years.
Like it or not but in the same way that Sean Connery might attempt to
'calm down' one of his lady friends, the Bond franchise has bitch-slapped
its way to the top to become the centre pole of the genre. I don't know
if you remember but back in 2004 Quentin Tarantino started flapping his
face-mounted drone-machine and telling people about his plans to make a
60's set adaptation of Casino Royale starring Pierce Brosnan. Shockingly though, and despite this being the director of The Vega Brothers, Kill Bill 3, and Killer Crow, it
turned out that this was all hot air with his film never actually
materialising. To his credit, he did attempt to bid for the rights to
make the movie but was unsurprisingly beaten by EoN
who then famously used it to reboot their series. Still, at least he
took it with his traditional good grace and dignity by claiming that the
reason the producers subsequently denied him a chance at directing was
because they were worried he'd “make it too good and fuck the rest of
the series”. Still, lets say that wasn't the case.. and it definitely
was.. let's say that we live in a parallel reality where the producers of Skyfall hadn't been so intimidated by the talent of the director of Death Proof and they'd actually let him make Casino Royale... Well, at least in terms of style and tone, The Man From U.N.C.L.E is basically a sequel to that movie.