Quentin Tarantino Addresses KILL BILL 3 and Says He Wants to Make a Western Comedy
Fans of Quentin Tarantino have been curious to see what his next film will be as there’s a good chance it will be his last. The filmmaker recently received a lifetime achievement award from Italian horror movie director Dario Argento a the Rome Film Festival.
While there the director said he had “no idea” what his next more could be, and when asked if it could be Kill Bill 3, the filmmaker said “Why not?” So, I guess there’s a chance that Kill Bill 3 could be his next film. But he also has another movie idea that he’s keen on making, and that film is a western comedy.
Tarantino is currently writing a film criticism book and possibly a TV series, but he told talk show host Fabio Fazio, of Italian state broadcaster RAI, “But first, I want to make a comedy.” He went on to talk about the project he has in mind during a conversation with Rome fest chief Antonio Monda. He said, laughing, “It’s not like my next movie. It’s a piece of something else that I’m thinking about doing — and I’m not going to describe what it is. But part of this thing, there is supposed to be a Spaghetti Western in it.”
“I’m looking forward to shooting that [thing] because it’s going to be really fun. Because I want to shoot it in the Spaghetti Western style where everybody’s speaking a different language. The Mexican Bandido is an Italian; the hero is an American; the bad sheriff is a German; the Mexican saloon girl is Israeli. And everybody is speaking a different language. And you [the actors] just know: OK, when he’s finished talking then I can talk.”
Tarantino has already made a couple of great western, both of which included some great comedy. But this other concept he’s talking about seems like it’ll lean into the comedy and be very different from the kinds of films that he’s made before.
The filmmaker also shared that the first movie he remembers watching was a British spy movie titled Deadlier Than the Male, directed by Ralph Thomas, with Richard Johnson in the James Bond-like role. He said:
“That’s as far back as my memory of a movie goes; I was literally about 5. I remember this one scene with Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina. They kidnap this guy, and they kind of hold this guy prisoner. I remember watching it at 5 and being a little blown away by the sexual politics of it. I didn’t understand that at 5.”
He went on to say that in the 90s when he started building his film collection, he bought Deadlier Than the Male, without knowing that was it. He explained:
“And so I’m screening it after I bought it. And then all of a sudden, about midway through, that scene comes on and I go: ‘Oh my God! This is the fucking movie! This is the first movie I ever fucking saw!”
That’s pretty funny. As for Tarantino’s next film, there’s still no indication of what it’s going to be, but I sure would love to see that third Kill Bill movie get made. I’d also want to watch the western comedy that he’s developing!
Look, I know that Tarantino has said several times that he’s going to make one more film and then retire from making movies. But, I don’t think that’s gonna happen. He’s just got too many fun story ideas!
Source: Variety