While talking up the comics venture, which he's collaborating on with Reginald Hudlin and Matt Wagner, Tarantino was asked about The Hateful Eight's status. Last we heard, Kurt Russell was saying the film would roll in early 2015, and he seems to have been right with Tarantino confirming it as his next gig, sending the packed room into deafening applause. Likely the cast he assembled for the table read will be returning, and that consisted of Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, James Parks, Walter Goggins, Amber Tamblyn, James Remar, Zoe Bell, Kurt Russell, Denis Menochet and Dana Gourrier. Here was the plot synopsis we received some time back...
"The Hateful Eight follows the steadily ratcheting tension that develops after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route, and traps a pitiless and mistrustful group which includes a competing pair of bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier, and a female prisoner in a saloon in the middle of nowhere."
While the idea of Tarantino revisiting the Western genre is interesting, his fans have been hoping for a return to the world of Kill Bill. The chances of their ever being a sequel are probably slim, but for years Tarantino has been talking about Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, which would combine both chapters of the revenge classic into one whopping extended edition. When asked about it, Tarantino said it is still happening and with one huge anime sequence added....
Tarantino: "What’s going on with that is originally back when Kill Bill was going to be one movie, I wrote an even longer anime sequence. So you see in the movie [O-Ren] kill her boss but then there was that long hair guy… The big sequence was her fighting that guy. I.G. [The Japanese Anime Studio] who did Ghost in the Shell said we can’t do that and finish it in time for your thing. And [plus] you can’t have a thirty-minute piece in your movie. I said – ‘ok’. It was my favorite part but it was the part you could drop. So we dropped it and then later when I.G. heard we were talking about doing Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — they still had the script so without even being commissioned, they just did it and paid for it themselves. It’s really terrific. Anyway – The Weinstein Company and myself were talking about actually coming out with it sometime, not before the year is out, but within the next year with limited theatrical engagement as well."
Tarantino usually focuses his energies on one big idea at a time, but that doesn't mean he hasn't begun cooking up others. He's done crime movies, revenge thrillers, war movies, comedies, and Westerns, but one thing he hasn't touched is the realm of sci-fi. That could be changing, though, as he was asked about taking on the genre and revealed there may be the beginnings of an idea bouncing around his head...
Tarantino: "You know — it’s funny: if you had asked me that a few years ago I would’ve said ‘I don’t know. It’s not really my genre. I’m not sure. But you never know.’ Now I have an idea. It wouldn’t be something I’m doing in the next year or so but it’s a little flower right now. A little bean sprout. But those bean sprouts can turn into beanstalks. So this would be the first time I wouldn’t say ‘No – not really.’ This is the first time I would say ‘Yeah — maybe’. It wouldn’t be a space ship type thing — travelling through space, going to other planets. It would be more of an earth bound sci-fi thing. But sci-fi nonetheless."
Earth bound sci-fi in Tarantino's voice? Sign me up. [Collider]
