Quentin Tarantino Will Write and Direct Five Episodes of BOUNTY LAW
Quentin Tarantino has been saying that he’s working on developing a series based on the western show Bounty Law that he created for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton played a character named Jake Cahill in the series. The story follows him as he makes his way through surviving in the Old West looking for bounties to collect.
Well, Quentin Tarantino has confirmed that he has written five half-hour episodes of the Bounty Law series, and he will direct all five of them. So, while he may not be making a new movie for a while, at least we are getting a Bounty Law series which is sure to be awesome! He told Deadline:
“As far as the ‘Bounty Law’ shows, I want to do that, but it will take me a year and a half, I ended up writing five half-hour episodes. So I’ll do them, and I will direct all of them.”
Tarantino went on to explain what the series will be about, saying:
“It got an introduction from ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ but I don’t really consider it part of that movie even though it is. This is not about Rick Dalton playing Jake Cahill. It’s about Jake Cahill. Where all this came from was, I ended up watching a bunch of ‘Wanted, Dead or Alive‘, and ‘The Rifleman,’ and ‘Tales of Wells Fargo,’ these half-hour shows to get in the mindset of ‘Bounty Law,’ the kind of show Rick was on. I’d liked them before, but I got really into them. The concept of telling a dramatic story in half an hour. You watch and think, wow, there’s a helluva lot of storytelling going on in 22 minutes. I thought, I wonder if I can do that?”
There’s no official word on if Leonardo DiCaprio will return to play the character Jake Cahill, but I sure hope that he does! That would be freakin’ fantastic! What would make it even better is if Brad Pitt came back as Cliff Booth to do the stunts in the series!
I’m more excited about this than I am about seeing Tarantino direct a Star Trek movie. I love westerns, and there’s no doubt this is going to be a lot of fun to watch. There’s no word on when and where the series will premiere yet.