It’s more or less what you’d expect when one of the most loved directors is linked to a left-of-field project but reports now peg that the story linking Quentin Tarantino to the gestating 20th Century Fox adaptation of “The Shadow” is not true.
Yesterday it was reported that Tarantino was in discussions — and may even already be on board — with Fox to rewrite the script by Siavash Farahani and direct the project, though as we noted at the time, the move was awfully out of character for the outspoken auteur to take on some unoriginal work even if The Shadow was the kind of pulp character right up Tarantino’s alley.
An official representative of Tarantino has now reportedly told MTV that “there is no truth to this story” while QT Archives have added that they’re “happy to confirm that the rumors are completely false.” It’d probably be a pretty open-shut case but Pajiba and their Hollywood Cog source have a fairly solid record of breaking news and even braced themselves for the backlash (similiar to all their past exclusives), noting that this story was also “likely to be met with a lot of skepticism.”
It’ll remain to be seen where the story goes from here but, for now, we’ll continue to consider it a rumor. Either way, but the film would seemingly only add yet another potential project to Tarantino’s hefty plate which already boasts a spaghetti western focusing on slavery, an adaptation of a trilogy of Len Deighton spy novels, a 1930s gangster movie, and possibly a documentary on patron/friend Harvey Weinstein. God knows where his headed next.
big surprise here