If I can put my James Bond fan hat on briefly, I found this video interesting and worth flagging up. Did you know that Quentin Tarantino was considered to direct an adaptation of Casino Royale? He’s apparently quite a Bond fan, and after Pulp Fiction in 1994 was in the running to continue the series in the Brosnan era. According to this video, it would have been black and white, and starred Samuel L. Jackson as Felix Lieter. If you ask me, it sounds like it would have been awesome. Mind you, at the moment I daresay we’re going through such a James Bond drought that we can really do with more things like this: we really need a maverick director like Tarantino to get the franchise back on track post Daniel Craig, and to restore it to it’s usual cultural position. We haven’t seen a new Bond film in so long that the energy and excitement which they seem to bring to our culture is really starting to get missed.