Writer/director Quentin Tarantino spent a good two hours on the Church of Tarantino podcast recently, and he delivered the goods: details on “The Movie Critic,” the upcoming “The Adventures Of Cliff Booth,” and what he’s doing next (a play), but there’s more.
During the conversation, the filmmaker was insisting he was prolific in the last six years, writing a “The Movie Critic” eight-episode series, the movie version, his “Cinema Speculation” book, and “The Adventures Of Cliff Booth” movie, which David Fincher will direct.
But there’s one more film he made, he revealed; an unnamed Western, albeit one that he doesn’t intend to make
“I wrote a Western script that I’m not going to really do anything with,” he revealed. “But I have it all right. I might, I might rape and pillage it and rip parts out of it for other things.”
What could those other things be? Well, during the podcast, Tarantino did hold fast to the idea that his tenth film will be his last feature-length film, but he gave himself plenty of wiggle room.
“You know, I can do plays, I can [make] short movies, I can [make] TV shows. There are all kinds of filming things,” he clarified about his post-“retirement” options.
During his laundry list rundown of things he wrote since the release of “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” six years ago, the podcast host also mentioned his spin-off series, “Bounty Law” starring his Rick Dalton character, essentially a show about Dalton’s TV show within ‘OUATIH.’ But Tarantino clarified that “Bounty Law” does not fit into that grouping of time and was written earlier.
“Yeah [no, ‘Bounty Law’] that was written during the time of when I wrote the [Once Upon A Time In Hollywood] script.”
What’s happening with that would be a spin-off series? Would it ever get made? The interviewer didn’t ask, and Tarantino never mentioned it again.
But one of the themes of the two-hour podcast that Tarantino repeated often was moving forward and no longer looking backward. “My dick’s not that hard about old shit, all right?”
And to seemingly nail that point home, Tarantino said he no longer had interest in releasing a longer version of “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” despite talk of a much, much longer version existing at one point.
Tarantino bagging another Western is probably not a huge surprise. He already wrote two in a row with “Django Unchained” and “The Hateful Eight,” so the filmmaker probably needed a break.
So, a Western he’ll never make, and a TV limited series, that may languish too. All we know is that a West London play is next and his tenth and final film is at least two years away—the length of time he said his stage play will probably take up once it hopefully arrives in early 2026.
Listen to the full podcast conversation below.
