Quentin Tarantino Envisions 4-Hour 'Django Unchained' as TV Miniseries

On the 20th anniversary of the Cannes premiere of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino has been at Cannes chatting up his career and what he deems the "death" of cinema, that being the birth of digital filmmaking. And so tonight Pulp Fiction will be shown in 35mm to an audience who will likely appreciate Tarantino's stance on the issue. The director also talked about his most recent film, Django Unchained, and revealed he may have a plan to show us even more of it.

According to Deadline and a number of people who were in attendance, Tarantino said he has more than 90 minutes of deleted material from the slavery epic, which already clocked in at a hefty 165 minutes theatrically. The idea would be to present it as a 4-hour miniseries to air on TV, but certainly not on a network...

Tarantino:  "I have about 90 minutes worth of material with Django. It hasn’t been seen. My idea, frankly, is to cut together a four-hour version of Django Unchained. But I wouldn’t show it like a four hour movie. I would cut it up into hour chapters. Like a four-part mini-series. And show it on cable television. Show it like an hour at a time, each chapter."

So this is just an idea floating around in Tarantino's head, sorta like how Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair was floating in his head and never actually became a real thing. We'll see if any of this happens.