We had a sneaking suspicion when AICN reported (without quotes of course) that Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards” would be two films long that this was bad or outdated intel.
And we might be right.
On the heels of Tarantino’s announcement that the script is complete and pre-production is about to commence very shortly, comes a little kernel of news via foxy Anne Thompson’s Variety Blog (Anne, please, call us).
AICN got their 2-film information from the DVD extras of the original 1977 “Inglorious Bastards,” which Quentin stole borrowed his title from (though it’s not a sequel).
Special edition DVD’s do take a minute to produce, and AICN says the the interview was shot “years ago at [the] Venice [film festival],”
when QT didn’t have a finished script (or by the sounds of it, he hadn’t even finished the final draft until 3-4 months ago). So right there the info is years old.
Then Thompson talked to Tarantino just very recently. And this project no longer sounds like two films at all.
“I spoke to Tarantino at the recent Warren Beatty AFI gala how long the pic would be. He said he’s aiming to deliver the movie at ‘Pulp Fiction’ length (154 minutes).”
She even makes a sly nod to the two-films “news.” “He presumably learned his [length] lesson from ‘Grindhouse,’ which failed at the b.o. as a three-hour double feature,” she added.
So there you go. Unless Tarantino has another film under his belt and decided to not tell anyone at the Provincetown International Film Festival or the Beatty AFI tribute, this is not happening. And since he’s a motormouth that will talk off anyone’s ear about the slightest little idea he has, we can safely assume it’s going to be only one film. The Playlist: 1, Nerds Who Don’t Own Their Domain: O
