Quentin Tarantino + Takashi Miike = Live Theater?

Posted by Todd Brown at 12:26am.

Posted in Film News .

Okay, here’s a doozy and judging from the source it’s legit ...

While introducing tonight’s Midnight Madness screening of Takashi Miike’s Zebraman, Toronto Film Festival programmer Colin Geddes first relayed Miike’s regrets for not being in attendance and then relayed this little bit of news:

Miike and Quentin Tarantino were both in attendence at the just-wrapped-up Venice Film Festival this year and at some point during the proceedings the two of them sat down for a little chat. I’m willing to bet Quentin did most of the talking. But what came out of that talk was this: when writing the screenplay for Kill Bill Tarantino originally gave Go Go Yubari a twin sister, a character cut out of the final script for pacing reasons. Tarantino and Miike talked about the character some and the end result was Tarantino giving Miike permission to direct a stage play based on the Yubari twin and the removed section of screenplay.

No word on what the title will be or when this will actually hit the stage - Miike’s got three films in various stages of production right now, so it won’t be any time soon - but Geddes is in regular contact with the man and I very much doubt he would have spilled this if it wasn’t definite.

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logboy 09/17/2004 @ 2:40am

and theres the stage play miike is directing for towards the end of this year. apparently that theatre company often films and releases their plays on dvd… fingers crossed…
Ricardo 09/18/2004 @ 9:57pm

I hope this happens and that it comes to the US on DVD. I’ve always wanted to see that part of the story come to life. Here’s Hoping!
Esh 09/21/2004 @ 4:31am

Tarantino should die for ruining everything he touches. Tarantino should die for ruining everything he touches. <3
Mikunt 09/22/2004 @ 4:24pm

i gotta seriously poop outta my anushole
vincent Vega 10/26/2004 @ 8:32pm

this could very well be the coolest news ive ever heard.
logboy 10/27/2004 @ 3:04am

could very well be the death knell for miike. tragic abysmall shockingly poor judgement if true…