Here’s the short and sweet Quentin Tarantino news of the past week: Inglourious Basterds’ wild success, both with audiences and critics, has given the director the breathing room to admit he wants to revisit Uma Thurman and the Kill Bill franchise. Two caveats:
1. (Spoiler) Bill is dead.
2. With the exception of Basterds, Tarantino yaks about movie ideas all the time without following through — The Vega Brothers is a great example.
However, according to Variety, QT not only confirmed that he would be making Kill Bill 3 at the Morelia Film Festival by the ten year anniversary of the second film in 2014. The juice is that he also talked about bridging that span of time with a possible “‘re-imagining’ of a number of genres including a Western or a 1920s to ’30s ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’ type gangster movie.”
Inglourious Basterds has proven that Tarantino has the ability to deftly marry his unique writing style to a period piece without resorting to idiocy. I’m all for a true blue Western, as he has long hinted his interest in the genre, particularly with a very interesting performance in Sukiyaki Western Django.
The great part about this is that if all really goes as planned, we’ll have two Tarantino films in the next five years.
I think Tarantino would do a great job doing a western or a gangster flick. He has shown he can do a WWII picture and pull it off perfectly. I'm a western fan and would love to see what he would do with a western script. As for Kill Bill Vol. 3 – bring it on. I loved the first two and they were my favorites of his until I saw Inglourious Basterds.
I think Tarantino would do a great job doing a western or a gangster flick. He has shown he can do a WWII picture and pull it off perfectly. I'm a western fan and would love to see what he would do with a western script. As for Kill Bill Vol. 3 – bring it on. I loved the first two and they were my favorites of his until I saw Inglourious Basterds.