>>212033709You're wrong, QT has spoken on Bond over the years, he's a Fleming nut, he knows the books in and out unlike any past Bond helmer or recently proposed ones, possibly with the exception of Nolan. He wasn't going to make Bond irreverent or make him speak jive. The best proof of this is his faithful vision for an adapted trilogy of Len Deighton's Berlin Game spy books, which have a harder edge than Fleming's but more emphasis on intel gathering and spookcraft. The draw for him was to work outside the very expectations you've defined, the closest we'll ever get now is Hans Landa, too cartoonish for Bond's world but a solid example of a necessary memorable adversary of wits for a true Fleming outing.
I haven't read the script for his Star Trek, which, while apparently more in line with his brand, it being a gangster noir set on Earth, is still allegedly great, Shatner was all in, and considering the lens flare slop JJ dished out, permanently denting the IP, it would be a correction and injection rather than a "bad fit."
He was also dedicated to making a whiter Anglo Bond than any other modern director is able or willing to, OUaTiH is an example of this loophole, and that was an appeal for him. It's a shame Broccoli shunned him, ideally he would have directed a Mission Impossible for Cruise, an eight film franchise fueled by Broccoli's rejection of Cruise for Bond, that vengeful billion dollar smash might have killed her.