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.
