Remember that flurry of news about a month ago about Quentin Tarantino's next film? It all stared with Italian superstar Franco Nero saying that he was doing a spaghetti Western with a bunch of folks and Tarantino was involved. Then it turned out Nero was talking about something altogether different, but Tarantino was indeed working on a spaghetti western with Christoph Waltz set to be one of the stars. That got people thinking back to the build up to Inglourious Basterds
when Tarantino mentioned wanting to do a spaghetti Western, but set in a totally different time and place....Tarantino: “I’d like to do a Western. But rather than set it in Texas, have it in slavery times. With that subject that everybody is afraid to deal with. Let’s shine that light on ourselves. You could do a ponderous history lesson of slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad. Or, you could make a movie that would be exciting. Do it as an adventure. A spaghetti Western that takes place during that time. And I would call it ‘A Southern’”
Was this the film everybody was talking about now? When asked about it by Deadline a few weeks ago, Tarantino merely said that he'd complete a draft of the script and that it would be ready to go soon. All he basically admitted was that it was a Western, but no further details were revealed.
Now frequent Tarantino collaborator, Uma Thurman, has spoken up about the film while out on a presser for her latest project. She gives the most concrete info yet, all but confirming what had been speculated and frankly, hoped for...
Thurman: “I think he has a script ready to start of a new film, ‘A Southern’, I think it’s really exciting. It’s another new story and a fresh piece of material that he is channeling at the moment."
That comes courtesy of Hollywood Outbreak, who had asked the actress about a possible Kill Bill 3. About that, she says "it lives down the road", but I'm not holding my breath. Then again, Tarantino has been pretty good about not wasting any ideas he's thrown out there. If he mentions a future project at all in public, expect him to visit it in some way.
So that appears to be it. Tarantino's next film will be his southern slavery era "Western". Christoph Waltz I believe is the only one confirmed for it at this point. We'll have to see if any of the previously talked about names(Treat Williams, Keith Carradine) will be involved.
