James Bond books once deemed ‘not good enough’ for film, new papers reveal
That point has been repeatedly proven by some of the other films that were bluntly dismissed out of hand and went on to bankroll studios for decades: Star Wars struggled for years to find a backer; Indiana Jones was deemed too risky; the hit factory at Tristar noted of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction: “This is the worst thing ever written. It makes no sense. Someone’s dead and then they’re alive. It’s too long, violent, and unfilmable.” Columbia’s verdict on Back to the Future was that it was a “really nice, cute, warm film, but not sexual enough.” The same studio dismissed ET, as “a wimpy Walt Disney movie”. It went on to make more than $1bn in merchandising deals alone, on an original budget of $10m.
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