Quentin Tarantino has been back at Cannes this week celebrating the 20th anniversary of Pulp Fiction – where it won the coveted Palme d’Or back in 1994 – and he has teased what his next project might be – an uncut version of his most recent movie Django Unchained. Speaking to an audience at the beloved film festival Tarantino revealed that, “I have about 90 minutes worth of material…it hasn’t been seen. My idea frankly, is to cut together a four hour version of Django Unchained.”
However Tarantino then went on to state that he wouldn’t expect viewers to sit in theatres for four hours: “But I wouldn’t show it like a four hour movie. I would cut it up into hour chapters…show it on television. Show it like an hour at a time…We could use all the material I have and it wouldn’t be an endurance test. It would be a mini-series and people love those…That’s how it could work.”
Tarantino’s next movie was to be another western entitled The Hateful Eight, however he ditched the idea after the script was leaked over the internet back at the start of the year. Now it looks like the movie might be back on after he opened up to journalists, “We’ll see, I’m still writing the script right now…I have calmed down a bit. The knife-in-the-back wound is starting to scab.” Last month saw a successful live reading of the initial script draft in L.A. featuring the likes of recently Oscar nominated actor Bruce Dern and Tarantino favourites Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Kurt Russell and Michael Madsen but the director still remains unsure whether the movie will make it to the big screen, “Maybe I’ll shoot it, publish it, do it on the stage…Maybe I’ll do all three.”
No Quentin – please for the love of all that is sacred, please shoot it!
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Originally published May 23, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
