Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some very interesting words from Quentin Tarantino about his next flick. I got an email this morning right before I had to drive through about 150 miles of Buttfuck Nowhere, Texas that had a copy of the Total Film story. I just got back to my computer and boy has this story spread through the internet like wildfire via the AP wire. Here's Total Film's story:
Rather than a long-rumoured World War 2 epic, the auteur is set to film a kung-fu movie shot entirely in Mandarin, with a second version shot simultaneously with a kitsch out-of-sync English dubbed soundtrack.
Movie magazines and Internet sites across the world have reported that the award-winning Writer and Director’s next project would be “Inglorious Bastards,” but in an interview with Total Film, Tarantino revealed he would in fact be working on an entirely different and completely leftfield movie.
The news was revealed when unsuspecting Total Film journalist Mark Dinning visited Tarantino’s home to deliver two awards from the magazine’s 2004 Readers Awards for Tarantino’s Kill Bill series – Man Of The Year and Action Scene Of The Year:
“Inglorious Bastards, Not yet, Man. My next movie is gonna be another kung fu that’s gonna blow your asses off. Everyone still thinks I’m doing Bastard’s next, but before I do that I want to do something much smaller.”
Tarantino continued: “The next movie will be in Mandarin! I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill, so much so that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin. If you’re not up to watching it with subtitles I really want to do a full-on dubbed version. Maybe shooting two Kill Bill movies has spoiled me but f&*k it – sue me!”
Whilst no release date or plot details have been revealed for this as yet unnamed project, Total Film magazine’s Mark Dinning believes the film is set to be a true labour of love for the Director:
“I’m not surprised by this move to make a movie in a foreign language – the man is a walking encyclopaedia of weird and wonderful movies and he loves kung fu. He’s not copying Mel Gibson, he just wants to make a genuine martial arts film with all the ideas he has spilling over from shooting Kill Bill.
“The more we think about this announcement – his new kung-fu project has Tarantino written all over it - a mix of the barmy and the brilliant that film fans will be excited about seeing. The number of UK film fans who voted for Kill Bill in our awards shows that people love his work and will look forward to this next movie. ”
I'm not sure if this is truly what Quentin is going to go forward on first or just what has his excitement at the time this Total Film writer dropped off those awards, but if it is I'll definitely be excited to see it. If there's one American director out there that gets the kung fu genre (and all its subgenres) it's Tarantino. He understands the characters, the mythos and the action. Imagine stripping down KILL BILL to ONLY the chop sockey elements. Sure, that would make the KILL BILL flicks less impressive, especially without the spaghetti western influence, but imagine that style, that energy focused into a full blown kung fu flick. I'm giddy to see INGLORIOUS BASTARDS, but if he feels he needs to build up to it via another badass kung fu flick, then I'm game, too... as long as he gets his lazy ass back to Austin and puts on the next QT fest before he rolls film!!
