We're still a couple of months away from the film's release, but a recent spate of trailers have seen even those of us who were previously a little lukewarm on "Django Unchained" get a little excited. We're not 100% sold yet, but there's a swaggering confidence to what we've seen so far that makes us hopeful that we could be seeing vintage Tarantino from his racially-charged Western come Christmas Day.
As ever, there's not been a lot of word from the director as to what might come next, but a recent interview has suggested that the director's recent output, including his last film "Django Unchained," might be of a part of a bigger whole. After being named the the director of their lifetime in the 200th issue of the UK's Total Film, Tarantino spoke to the magazine, and suggested that "Inglourious Basterds" and "Django Unchained" might form the first two parts of a trilogy.
"'Inglourious Basterds' and 'Django Unchained' bespeak a trilogy," the director says. "As different as they are, there is a companion piece quality. There might very well be a third one. I just don’t know what it is yet.” It's not too difficult to see what he's talking about, the two films being violent, stylized period pieces with a subtext of social injustice. And that's not to mention actor Christoph Waltz, who has major roles in both.
So could we see a third Waltz-starring film along similar lines down the line? Tarantino's up front about the possibility, but also that it's just that, a possibility. Could that third part turn out to be the 1930s gangster picture he's mentioned in the past? Or the Len Deighton spy adaptations he was also considering? Or is there another period of history you'd like to see Tarantino tackle in a 'Basterds'/'Django' style? We won't know for some time, but we imagine word will start to sneak out sometime after "Django Unchained" hits theaters on Christmas Day. [Total Film]
QT made a comment on Charlie Rose when he was promoting Pulp Fiction saying history was the one subject he did well in when he went to school, so this "career move" or whatever makes sense.
If IB and DJU have a binding principle it's the idea of revising atrocious historical phenomena (Nazis, slavery) in Tarantino revenge style – borrowing heavily from obscure cinema of course. With that in mind, it would be so sick if he tackled something like The Crusades or the witch-burning period (revenge witch? Badass) but I don't know how interested he is in history that doesn't have much to do with America's involvement so a "Navajo Joe" western style with a Native American (female preferably) protagonist would be right up his alley I think and would make for a pretty sweet trifecta.
Spaghetti Wester. Spaghetti War. Spaghetti Spy? Spaghetti Giallo?
Something along the lines of Navajo Joe would make a lot of sense to close out the trilogy. In other words, a revenge Western with a Native American protagonist.
Part 3 is set in the future..!
both are spaghetti westerns too. love to see him try a cyberpunk spaghetti western to close it out, but that's never gonna happen.
What about Elmore Leonard's "Cuba Libre" adaption? I read somewhere it was among his projects. It would also be a period piece (set in the spanish-american war of 1898) and its style and dialog seem like a perfect fit for Tarantino.
If the shoe fits…