Update: So yeah, anyone with eyes, ears and a functioning brain knew this story was horseshit, but in case you had doubts, MTV questioned Helen Mirren herself and when they asked if the rumor was true she said, “I wish. I should be so lucky.” Case closed.
The earlier story went…
So as the trash heap of the Internet asks, will Quentin Tarantino do a medieval picture with Helen Mirren? The answer is No. As they say across the pond where this report comes from, it’s rubbish.
According to the report from the tabloid U.K. Sun, the film “will feature his trademarks — bloody violence and foul language.” Wow, you don’t say!? Could the person who made that up try and any less to sound convincing?
Jesus Christ. We also confirmed this report is false by simply looking into the Internet sewer and finding the scrawled piece of paper where it all began.
Tarantino has said he has not started writing his next picture, a project he hopes to be less epic than “Inglourious Basterds” and you can be sure that the specious British press — always rather desperate to report BS QT news — hasn’t learned about it before its about to be officially reported (Tarantino spent months writing ‘Inglourious’ and no on learned about it until the trades got wind of the delivered script).
So file this under: imaginary British reports. What is more real is that in a recent interview on Sir David Frost’s “Frost over the World” program, Tarantino expressed his desire to one day make a children’s film and romantic comedy in a 1930s, screwball-like manner (Howard Hawks’ “His Girl Friday” is after all one of his all-time favorite films). But those would likely be years and years away and are just “wouldn’t it be cool?” Ideas. Don’t lose sleep over it, and especially not over this bogus medieval film report. He also discussed the longstanding beef over the Bond film, “Casino Royale.” “I’m the reason they made the damn thing,” he said.
We’ve also been told exclusively by the function in our brains called common sense that Quentin has more chance of doing the Conan O’Brien revenge film on NBC/Jay Leno he recently pitched in jest than ever doing this nonsense gossip report. As you were.
Originally posted January 26 at 9:48 a.m.
