If you’ve been following film news over the past couple of weeks, you know that Quentin Tarantino has been making the podcasting rounds. And over that time, the filmmaker has been making headlines by trashing Bruce Lee (and his wife), teasing an expansive “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” empire, and talking about various other projects that he’ll never get around to making. One of those latter projects seems to be an idea he has for a “Reservoir Dogs” remake, which he thought at one time might be his final film. But now, he doesn’t think it’s going to happen, but he is sharing a few details about what it would look like.
Speaking to the Cinemablend Reel Blend podcast recently, Tarantino revealed a few more details of what his “Reservoir Dogs” remake could have been and how it could still potentially exist in the future
“I didn’t get that far in it,” Tarantino said about how far into the process he got with his “Reservoir Dogs” remake, “but I’ve decided that if I wanted to do something like that I would do it more onstage. I think that would be cool, but my thought process was, well, if it’s a strong piece of material, it would work doing it any time, it does seem timeless, and with a new group of actors, it would have a new life and it would have a new life because of the fact that I didn’t really know what the hell I was doing when I did ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ and now I know what I’m doing a little bit more so that could be interesting. I won’t have the youthful exuberance that I had, but we’ll see how much that accounts for anything.”
Then he dropped an important detail and wrinkle in the story and said, “At the time, I was considering doing it as a movie, making it as an all-Black cast, that would have been my twist on it as far as making it a different movie.”
Knowing he wanted to have an all-Black cast doesn’t mean he already began fantasy casting the project. “Nah, I don’t think I took it that far,” he said. “I think part of the idea to open up would be just to see who responded to it and figure it out that way.”
Though he did start working on it and has ideas, Tarantino wants people to know that it’s not going to be a film. “No, I’m not going to do it,” but he added, “I’ll probably do it on stage at some point, but not as a movie.”
Listen to the full podcast below, it’s almost two hours!
