Quentin Tarantino writes in longhand when writing screenplays and when he does so he pauses every few minutes to smile in satisfaction to himself and think, “Man, this is genius!” And when he gets an idea, he writes them all down. And he never. ever.ever.edits himself. This can be evidenced by almost all his films past “Pulp Fiction” and certainly the Kill Bill films that were both unnecessarily bloated, overlong pictures for absolutely no reason other than the director clearly having fallen in love with his own words and having the final cut to keep them there.
So it’s no real surprise that Tarantino’s much-discussed, long-delayed WWII epic, “Inglorious Bastards,” is now apparently going to be two separate films according to an interview with Ain’t It Cool News (ain’t it!). Well, hello, the film was originally envisioned as three films. Now we’ll be just slightly less jet lagged when we wake up and these two epics are over.
The interview also confirms that the script is essentially pretty much one big rip-off of “The Dirty Dozen.”
AICN, who are supposed to be masters of this domain (bad ass cool cinema, yeah!) appear to think the non-casting news is new – that QT only bandied about names like Stallone and Schwarzenneger, he actually hadn’t talked to anyone or cast anyone – but like we said last time, this is something he mentioned in 2005.
Quentin said the film would (ideally) be ready for Cannes 2009 at Cannes this year in May. With two films in production and casting and… Oh, whatever…
Hope you get a stomach ache from all that humble pie.