10 rumored Quentin Tarantino films we still want to see
We'll probably never get a Kill Bill sequel, a Vega brothers spinoff, or the director's take on Star Trek—but we'd sure like to
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This week marks the 20th anniversary of Kill Bill: Vol. 1, which has us wondering about all those rumors of potential sequels and continuations that have been floating around ever since the saga seemingly concluded in Kill Bill: Vol. 2. If Quentin Tarantino is serious about retiring after directing his 10th film that would make his next project, reportedly a ’70s-set drama about a movie critic, his last. That means all the other ideas he’s talked about over the years may never be fully realized—no Kill Bill sequel, no Vega brothers spinoff, no Bond film, no Star Trek reimagining. And we think that’s a damn shame. Of the many rumored or abandoned Tarantino projects, these are the ones we believe had the most potential for greatness. Perhaps one day he’ll rethink his self-imposed limit and return to one or more of them.
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I’d probably be on board for Tarantino to adapt just about any Elmore Leonard novel. Maybe we could finally even get a good adaptation of The Big Bounce, although I doubt it.
I was always surprised he never guest-directed an episode of Justified. Alan Ruck’s episode would’ve been a good choice.
He was supposed to do one of the new series (Primeval), but it never panned out I guess.
Leonard’s westerns pretty much escaped his little adaptation resurgence, perhaps because so many were already adapted in the 60s. Maybe the 3:10 to Yuma remake didn’t bank as much as they had hoped.
I’m in favour of Elmore Leonard adaptations, but maybe not by Tarantino. I’d rather see an adaptation that doesn’t have to remind me all the time that “this is a Tarantino movie.”
I wouldn’t necessarily call the Owen Wilson Big Bounce good, but it was pretty entertaining. Any movie that has a scene with Willie Nelson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Morgan Freeman just fucking around and playing dominoes can’t be all bad.
One of his ideas for his follow-up to Reservoir Dogs was a Luke Cage film, which would have been a scene for scene adaptation of the first issue, which he describes as “everything great about blaxploitation.”
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Would we, though?
Of the ones listed here, I think the World War 2 thing sounds the most interesting. But despite his many fetishes, he’s never repeated a genre, so I would doubt he’d go to that well twice.
Reservoir / Pulp? Django / Hateful?
Oh yeah.I didn’t think about Hateful and Django, but I’ve always thought of Dogs as a heist movie and Pulp as its own thing (minus the gazillion bad imitations in the early 90’s).
The description of 40 Lashes sounds like a Django / Basterds mashup for sure.
I have wondered how many Trek fans want to see a Tarantino Trek Gangster film; cos the idea has always sounded bloody awful to this Trekkie TBH.
In a TV-like situation where they’re kinda fooling around and exploring, I think it’d be great to give 8-10 really distinctive filmmakers $30 million each and let them go nuts and see what we get. What does Wes Anderson’s Star Trek look like? Ari Aster’s? Greta Gerwig’s? Bong Joon-ho’s?
As the quarter-billion dollar Official Next Chapter, I don’t think he’s the right choice. But you probably couldn’t get those kinds of people for anything less than a boatload of money, which is the catch-22 here.
I am a fan of most of Tarantino’s work and I am a Star Trek fan and I really do not think those worlds should cross. I would still watch the movie but I just don’t think it works. I would love to see Tarantino take his love for Wuxia and Samurai movies and make a period piece martials arts movie
I’d crawl over broken glass to watch a Tarantino-scripted Star Trek naval epic in the mould of Crimson Tide. A Tarantino Star Trek time-travel gangster film? Hard pass.
I feel like Tarantino used his clout to produce a few martial arts movies, or at least bring them over, but I don’t think many had the success that studios were hoping for.
As for a Tarantino Trek, I’d love to see him direct an episode of Strange New Worlds, mainly because I think that’s the only existing property that could “Fit him in”.
When I found out he basically wanted to redo “A Piece of the Action” it made more sense but also felt less special. I would’ve been really interested in seeing his take on science fiction, but working with that episode put it back into his usual wheelhouse. Still might’ve been fun. I imagine his approach to the sci-fi stuff would’ve been very 70’s/Kubrick-esque.
Yeah, I honestly thought he was just joking. “I’ll make a Tarantino Star Trek movie because there was a gangster episode and I can just make a gangster movie” and everyone has spent the ensuing couple years thinking he was gonna make like some big space epic.
Come on, surely you want to hear Quentin’s self-insert character do a two-minute monologue on how Klingons are just “fuckin’ astro-ni**ers”. How are Jeri Ryan’s feet holding up these days, anyway? I think that’s what’s gonna be the clincher.
It would be a disaster.
Tarantino also at one point said he wanted to do a biopic on John Brown, which would’ve been really fascinating. However, I think this was before he made Django, so maybe that film wound up being what the John Brown concept evolved into.
If you haven’t seen it already, Showtime’s adaptation of The Good Lord Bird is pretty great.
I would rather see a Tarantino Care Bears movie than a Tarantino Star Trek movie.
Oh look we’re going to Rigel IV to visit the planet of Umathurmanfeet. Spock says “fuck” a lot and drops n-bombs.
Tell him to stay the hell away from Star Trek. I haven’t watched a Tarantino film since Inglorious Basterds, and don’t think I’ve missed a thing.
Agreed. I haven’t enjoyed a Tarantino film since Jackie Brown, but even then he’s simply not a person who should be near Star Trek for any reason. Got tired of his schtick relatively early and it doesn’t translate to the ST world in any way.
Once Upon a Time is the best thing he’s done!
I really enjoyed The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time In America compared to everything he’d done since Jackie Brown.
I’ll tell him.
I like Kill Bill about as much as the next person, but for whatever reason the Vernita’s daughter revenge sequel never sounded the least bit interesting to me.
I’m waiting for the musical.
Most of these sound pretty bad, though that might be colored slightly by the fact that Tarantino’s output has left me increasingly underwhelmed with each new film since Kill Bill, give or take a bounce up for Hateful Eight.
I just don’t see the value in an R-rated Star Trek? Especially not Tarantino’s version of R-rated. It’s supposed to be, at its core, stuff that families can watch together and that parents can share with their kids. What is gained from throwing in a bunch of profanity and graphic violence? And n-words. And bare feet.
Tarantino and Star Trek? Well… guess we’ll have to see it. Some of my friends at luxury branding agency are heavy Star Trek fans and didn’t like the idea haha
Wasn’t there at one point a rumour that he was going to remake Friday the 13th?
I feel like if Tarantino tried to direct a Wuxia style Kung Fu movie that was all in Mandarin it would piss a bunch of people off.
There’s no way in hell the folks who control the rights to James Bond or Star Trek are going to let Tarantino anywhere near those franchises unless it’s to drum up publicity the way the NFL is using Taylor Swift.
Just throwing this out there: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash.