So much for all that “Inglourious Basterds,” prequel/sequel talk which you kind of knew wasn’t going to happen regardless.
What’s next for director Quentin Tarantino? Well, the guy is certainly a genre-hopper. “Well I still want to do a Western, I haven’t done a Western yet. I keep flirting about with it, but I haven’t done it yet,” Tarantino said to Empire on the red carpet promoting “Inglourious Basterds,” that premiered in the U.K. this week.
This makes total sense, really, Tarantino has basically made an homage to all his favorite kinds of films thoughtout his career: a kung-fu movie (the “Kill Bill” films), a blaxploitation flick (“Jackie Brown”), a a grindhouse B-movie/slasher film (“Death Proof”), a crime gangster picture and one with the strands of the French New Wave (“Resevoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction”) and a war adventure-epic (“Basterds”).
Though there are shades of a Spaghetti Western in “Kill Bill 2,” and “Inglourious Basterds,” he’s never really shot a a full-on Italiano-like guns n’ grit movie and lord knows Tarantino loves him some Ennio Morricone, Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, etc. etc., the list goes on, the man is a spaghetti Western encylopedia (like he is about many genres).
Now he also loves John Wayne films too and he didn’t say qualify his Western quote with “spaghetti,” but if we were betting people, which we are, we’d put our money down that there would be many shade of the Italy-set sub-genre.
It seems that Empire asked Tarantino about alleged projects like a remake of “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” and another remake of the martial-arts flick “Come Drink With Me,” but Tarantino response seems to suggest he doesn’t even have a basic idea or concept for the Western yet. It’s just something he’d love to try. “Well I won’t be able to do anything in ten months from now, because I don’t even know what the next movie’s gonna be.”
So a Western next? More ‘Inglourious’ films? Tarantino works at his own pace without rushing things. We bet you won’t hear anything concrete for a while other than hopes and ideas and we’re not convinced ‘Basterds’ is going to do well enough at the box-office to beget sequels or prequels. Time will tell, but obviously August 21 is not looking entirely hopeful as of today.
