Have we all witnessed the growing trend of the trades publishing stories that aren’t really stories per se? Or at least not announcing true-blue projects as we’re used to. Everyone now has to slum it apparently. Here’s another. Despite already having recently claimed the “Kill Bill,” series will be revisited in a few years on Italian television, Variety, heard Quentin Tarantino flogging his intentions for the project at the recent Morelia Film Festival in Mexico and tried to advance the story.
They didn’t really (though they try and give 2014 as an official release date, but again, that’s all just mathematical educated guesses; Quentin wanted to wait 10 years to make a “Kill Bill 3”).
However, what is new is Tarantino’s thoughts that he’d like to make a movie in between his “Inglourious Basterds,” picture and “Kill Bill 3.” He’s already talked up his desire to write a Western, but in Mexico he said while “wide open,” to his next project he’s also thought of “re-imagining” a 1920s to ’30s “Pretty Boy Floyd” type gangster picture.
So it’s Tarantino’s version of Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies,” only with long, plodding scenes of clever dialogue and possibly another re-write of history?
Who knows. At this point it appears a Western or a gangster-film are just twinkles in Tarantino’s eye. What is interesting is that Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein claimed that if “Inlgourious Basterds,” did well enough there would be potential prequels and sequels and the picture is still in the box-office top 15 and has grossed $247 million worldwide so far. And while Tarantino did say in Mexico (like he’s said everywhere else including Austin when we were there) that he has plenty of ideas for ‘Inglourious’ sequels or prequels (though half the characters die so, sequels might be a little tough), you’d think if he was going to make them he would strike while the iron was hot.
If he does say, a Western and then, “Kill Bill 3,” will anyone care for “Inglourious in say, 2016? Plus, with the prequel idea you run into what happened with the proposed, “Vega Brothers,” film — if you wait too long after the fact and the actors look too old. In other words if he doesn’t do them next, we would assume they’re never going to happen. But then again, we were also wrong about Tarantino turning around ‘Basterds’ in a year for Cannes so who knows.
