Quentin Tarantino Says His Next Project Is A Stage Play He Hopes To Debut Next Year In London’s West End

Those buying into online rumors that Quentin Tarantino is prepping his 10th and final film after scrapping “The Movie Critic” are going to be disappointed with this update from the man himself. As the filmmaker is talking up a mysterious new stage play that is poised to make a grand debut next year in London’s West End, and will be his “next thing,” taking up his time for the foreseeable future.

Tarantino shared the update while speaking on “The Church of Tarantino” podcast and revealed that the stage play would potentially take up the next year or two-and-a-half years of his life if it ends up getting a tour. So, there doesn’t seem to be much room to start prepping, shooting his final movie, as he’ll be busy in the United Kingdom over that timeline with this untitled play.

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“Oh, the play is all written. It is absolutely the next thing I’m going to do. It’s absolutely my next project. And we’ll start doing it. We’ll start the ball rolling on it in January because I just figure it’s like the first of the year…It’s probably going to take up a year and a half to two years of my life.”

Adding the reasoning why it could take up so much of his time, “If it’s a success and I got to do the tour version of it, and you know, all that, all that kind, I’m preparing for it to be a success. If it’s, it’s a flop, then I’ll be done very quickly. But even starting from scratch, it’ll probably be a year before it’s in front of an audience.”

“So, so rather than Dick around and everything, I was like, no, no, OK, I’m, I’m, I’m, I’m having a great time with my kids and with my family and everything. So let me just hang out with my family for the whole rest of the year, and then I’ll more than likely move to England and bring my family with me and start working on the plane. Right now, [it] is to open it in the West End. So, we’ll see what happens.”

The next step is discovering what this play could be about, as once Tarantino did a stage reading of “The Hateful Eight” after killing the project when the script made its way online, only to pivot and shoot the project as a feature after the reading (with most of the film’s cast involved) amped him up on the material.

We should also note that Tarantino, in the last few years, has said he’s written a stage play version of “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” so that’s one possibility.

Could Tarantino be doing something original or tapping into another unmade script? That is a burning question that’ll likely be answered in the coming months.

Interesting enough, in the past Tarantino has mused about making a medieval project with British knights (we have to assume closer to something like John Boorman‘s mature “Excalibur“) and once considered adapting the Len Deighton novels that focused on the spy character Bernard Sampson (there was a brief nod to Deighton in “Jackie Brown” as Max Cherry was spotted reading “Berlin Game“).

If you weren’t aware, David Fincher is currently shooting the Cliff Booth sequel/spinoff at Netflix with Brad Pitt, based on a script penned by Tarantino that sees the former stuntman navigating Hollywood in the 1970s.

You can listen to that full discussion with Tarantino in that podcast episode below.

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