Recently showered with Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” director Quentin Tarantino is putting off his 10th film that he has been hinting at for a while (10 being the number of features he says he’ll make and then “retire”). Back in November, the filmmaker said while he’s been lining up projects to do before his 10th film, including a book, a play, and a 5-episode limited TV series.
Well, it sounds like Tarantino has revealed what that TV series is going to be: a 5-episode stint of “Bounty Law,” his fictional TV-show-within-a-movie that Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton guest appeared on in a pivotal moment of his career. Tarantino says he’s even written the episodes already and plans to direct them.
“As far as the ‘Bounty Law’ shows, I want to do that, but it will take me a year and a half,” he told Deadline and said, ” I ended up writing five half-hour episodes. So I’ll do them, and I will direct all of them.”
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Tarantino elaborated about the series and said he didn’t even really consider it part of “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” and sees it as its own living-breathing thing.
“It got an introduction from ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ but I don’t really consider it part of that movie even though it is,” he said. “This is not about Rick Dalton playing Jake Cahill. It’s about Jake Cahill. Where all this came from was, I ended up watching a bunch of ‘Wanted, Dead or Alive‘, and ‘The Rifleman,’ and ‘Tales of Wells Fargo,’ these half-hour shows to get in the mindset of ‘Bounty Law,’ the kind of show Rick was on. I’d liked them before, but I got really into them. The concept of telling a dramatic story in half an hour. You watch and think, wow, there’s a helluva lot of storytelling going on in 22 minutes. I thought, I wonder if I can do that?”
Well, I guess he is. Additionally, in another recent Deadline interview, Tarantino hinted at that delayed 10th film and said it connects, perhaps spiritually, to his debut movie. Perhaps another crime movie? “There is an umbilical cord from the tenth film to ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ all the way to the end. I think that’s kind of cool,” the two-time Oscar winner said.
Either way, both sound a ways off, Tarantino had a child recently and he’s certainly going to be focused on the Oscars, at least for the next few weeks. Check out a clip from “Bounty Law,” from ‘Once Upon A Time’ below and dream on with what the series version could be.