Tarantino's next movie is.....

[Pumpkin Bomb]

Well yeah. That wasn't a studio franchise (it wasn't even a remake of Inglorious Bastards). That's something he came up with on his own.

Well yeah, but he convinced a major film studio to let him film a bunch of Jewish commandos - including a psychopath with a baseball bat - torturing Nazi soldiers to death.

[GRANT!]

Well yeah, but he convinced a major film studio to let him film a bunch of Jewish commandos - including a psychopath with a baseball bat - torturing Nazi soldiers to death.

It was a 70 million dollar movie he wrote on spec. That's a little different from bringing someone on board for a billion dollar franchise like Bond. And Basterds was at Universal. They have a rep for green lighting movies like Scott Pilgrim, Serenity, Drag Me to Hell and the Ang Lee Hulk (often to mixed box office results).

Not sure if MGM would take the same risk with Bond/Sony.

[edhopper]

Inglorious Basterds had sort of a spaghetti western feel too.
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Not just a "feel" the whole directing style he used was an homage or rip off (depending on your POV) of Leone.

[G. Wayne]

Well, I think he'd do his best work on whatever he was enthused about. He really wanted to do Casino Royale, and I bet it would have been even better than Martin Campbell's - which was also great, but think of it in the sixties with Tarantino at the helm.

Didn't Tarantino pitch a Battle Royale remake and get thoroughly shot down?

[Royal]

Not just a "feel" the whole directing style he used was an homage or rip off (depending on your POV) of Leone.

Clouzot/Lang. Not Leone.

[Congo Jack]

This sounds like a joke not that i think it cant be very good. He has the dialouge,violence to do good spagetti western.

Why does it sound like a joke? If you've followed Tarantino's career a Spaghetti Western seemed inevitable.

I just hope he doesn't cast himself.

I'll agree with that. I thought he was good in his earlier acting roles, especially FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, but he's been weaker recently.

Since he is a big comic fan I would like to see him do a superhero film.

He has said that if he ever did a superhero movie it would been one he created himself. A Tarantino superhero would be something I'd be interested in seeing as well.

[GRANT!]

Not just a "feel" the whole directing style he used was an homage or rip off (depending on your POV) of Leone.

Mostly the first two chapters. It kind of becomes something else after that.

[edhopper]

Clouzot/Lang. Not Leone.

Them to. But more in the plotting. But if you look at many of the scenes, the long wide angle shots intercut with close ups. There was a great deal of Leone in it.
I mean it's Tarintino, something from here, something from there...

[jesse_custer]

Tarantino rips off more than three people in all of his movies. For example, the last scene in Inglorious Basterds had the imagery and feel of Miller's Crossing and ended with a Kubrick-like wink that resembled what P.T. Anderson did with There Will Be Blood's ending.

There was plenty of Godard throughout the movie, too.

[Lord Bravery]

I think he does it because, well, he's basically a fanboy of directors. You can tell he really loves the art. There is nothing malicious in his "ripping off/homaging". And i don't think it makes him less of a filmmaker.

A Tarantino spaghetti western would be awesome.

[jesse_custer]

Tarantino has the T.S. Eliot belief that all artists should steal. He's honest about what inspires him, so I don't have a problem with his swipes.

[Libaax]

Why does it sound like a joke? If you've followed Tarantino's career a Spaghetti Western seemed inevitable.

It sounds too good to be true is what i meant. Like one of those movies who are planned but never happen.

I would liked it better if he did a spagetti western earlier in his career. His last films doesnt have the same quality to them as the early ones.

[Muggs]

John Brown the anti-slavery guy? Hoo boy, that could be interesting.

Tarantino's talked about doing what he calls a "southern", which he said would be about slavery. Plus one of his favorite films is "Mandingo".

This sounds like a joke not that i think it cant be very good. He has the dialouge,violence to do good spagetti western.

Don't see why it would be a joke. He's owned the right's to Elmore Leonard's western novel "Forty Lashes Less One" for about 16/17 years.

He's been going on about how he wanted to make a western and a WW2 movie ever since "Pulp Fiction". Look how long it took him to actually getting round to making "Inglorious Bastards"

[hugh45]

Tarantino's talked about doing what he calls a "southern", which he said would be about slavery. Plus one of his favorite films is "Mandingo".

Eh?.........Which Mandingo movies??

[Hoss]

Tarantino has the T.S. Eliot belief that all artists should steal. He's honest about what inspires him, so I don't have a problem with his swipes.

Exactly - well done pastiche can become something exciting, unique and original. Inglorious Basterds is the ultimate example.

The first scene of Basterds is probably one the most unnerving thrillers ever brought to film. The acting and building of tension in that farm house is off the charts brilliant. That is probably Tarantino's peak as a director - beating the cheeseburger scene in Fiction.

Then the scenes with the Basterds are pure revenge flick stuff while the stuff in Paris is straight from an old fashioned spy movie. That is before the climax at the theater when Basterds becomes a violent comedy of errors before ending as a morality play with the sell-out evil kraut getting his due at the hands of a tough, all American hombre.

How many different flicks is that?

That said, I hope Tarantino manages to keep the feel and plotting of an old fashion Spag Western while breathing new energy and life into the genre's tropes and pacing.