Looks like Quentin Tarantino has settled on what his next project may be, for now.
The director told Vulture that the”Inglourious Basterds” or “Kill Bill” prequels/sequels will have to wait (despite having completed 40 pages of the ‘Basterds’ prequel already) and that he is working on a project on a “smaller, less epic” scale that is in a “different genre entirely.”
Tarantino adds that “he thinks he can finish [the project] in a five-to-six month period of intensive writing” which probably means it won’t be ready for another year or two. With his plans to retire at the age of 60 and write novels and cinema literature, here’s to hoping he stays on track with his plans.
Projects that are seemingly still on the cards and could be the aforementioned next project include his 1930s gangster picture, a spaghetti western, the southern KKK revenge tale and the adaptation of Len Deighton’s British spy novels, potentially with Simon Pegg.
One project recently singled out by the director on Japanese television is his John Brown slavery film which was described by Tarantino as “definitely in the garden” but only “one of my roses” (and any kind of slavery or KKK film could easily be rolled up into this idea, as he’d probably veer off history ala ‘Basterds’). Could it be that this is his next film? Could any of these aforementioned projects fit the bill? Hmm, none of them sound much smaller and less epic aside from perhaps the Len Deighton books, but our guess is he has something entirely new in the works. Or at least something so old and forgotten, it’s practically new (here’s a list of old Tarantino projects he once had in the works and are seemingly now all but dead).
Tarantino has already said, “Kill Bill 3” won’t come next, but it could come after whatever it is he’s cooking right now. At this point in his career, something akin to “Pulp Fiction,” would be pretty small scale in comparison to the scope of the “Kill Bill” and “Inglourious Basterds” films. We suppose “Death Proof” is in that smaller vein as well.