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1. The Visualist 07/29/2007 @ 5:59am

   a spaghetti western set in Nazi occupied France during WWII

   Umm Todd that is Inglorious Bastards, not some new project of his. He’s also mentioned that this may very well take on the form of a tv miniseries but that’s a whole other topic…

2. Todd Brown 07/29/2007 @ 6:07am

   If this is Inglorious Bastards then it’s changed A LOT since the early plans.  Those had it being a Dirty Dozen style, 1970’s style war picture.  There are some points of intersection but I don’t think anybody would confuse The Dirty Dozen with a Sergio Leone film.  With Tarantino the project could very well have morphed but I’m pretty sure he’s got Bastards at least partially written since he actually had most of the cast attached at one point and he’s saying here that he hasn’t really even started writing this one ...

   Of course, the guy shoots off his mouth so much that expecting any kind of consistency in the way he describes things may be asking too much ...

3. The Visualist 07/29/2007 @ 6:28am

   The way he mashes up genres and styles, Bastards may very well be an amalgam of Dozen and Leone. Think men-on-a-mission done in the spaghetti western style. I’m pretty sure this is Bastards as it was always set in Nazi-occupied France and just by the fact that he has always referred to his WWII as being Inglorious Bastards. Who knows what form the project has taken at this point but from all indications this is the same film. That he’s still writing it is no surprise, especially if he’s indeed making this into a film instead of a series

4. Collin Armstrong 07/29/2007 @ 7:17am

   Those two do sound like the same project - he’s been talking about BASTARDS for years.  There’s already an Italian film under that title - a mid-70s Enzo Castelari film that does bear more than a passing resemblance to THE DIRTY DOZEN, so who knows.

   Whatever his next project is, color me excited.  I’m of the opinion the man is still one of the best populist filmmakers of our age.  His over-eagerness to talk up ideas has always been a debit to me, only because I’d love to see all those projects come to fruition and know we’ll lucky if we get one or two in a 5-year span.

5. Blake 07/29/2007 @ 9:35am

   Hard to say exactly if it’s BASTARDS. If it is, then he has gone back and added Spaghetti Western elements and themes to it and it has taken on a new form. Can’t really think of many Spaghetti Western/WWII films out there, though I imagine he can use the Civil War type motif used in other Spaghetti Westerns as inspiration. Always the chance with Tarantino this is a completely new project in addition to BASTARDS, 36th Chamber remake, Avenging Eagle remake, Psychic aka 7 Notes of Death remake (he still has to make his giallo film), Friday the 13th whatever, and see endless list of new projects (* and he still has to work in his homage to the Hammerhead dance scene). I just hope he can tackle half of them. I would say the Avenging Eagle remake is the one that most excites me. He certainly isn’t short of ideas.

   Originally when this all started out there were two spaghetti westerns scripts and one WWII script he was making (that later morphed into two). Over the years they have morphed and changed around. If I get a chance to interview him at an upcoming film festival I will be sure to get this all sorted out.

   His next stop was the workshop at the Ninth Cinemanila International Film Festival.

6. Swarez 07/29/2007 @ 5:41pm

   I just hope he has somebody to watch over him because Death Proof is probalbly one of the worst films I’ve seen in a long time.

7. Marcio 07/30/2007 @ 3:30am

   death proof was ok, it’s not tarantino’s finest work (far from it) but it still was more entertaining that all the other action/crime films that are being released right now in mainstream cinema. but it did take too long time to make. its the kind of movie that a guy like takashi miike would had finished in a months time with 1/100 the budget.
   tarantino keeps getting distracted with all sorts of project and in the meantime gets very little done. time keeps passing by his last great film (jacky brown) was released ten years ago.

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