Tarantino Will Make Another Film Before Kill Bill 3; Perhaps A Western Or Gangster Picture
Last weekwe heardthatQuentin Tarantinowould make another installment in hisKill Billseries (which would seem to necessitate a stretch in what the title means, since Bill is dead) but that will likely be a few years down the road. Which, being this being Tarantino, could mean it won’t happen at all. But while doing a press conference forInglourious Basterdsat the Morelia Film Festival the filmmaker said he’d do a film between now andKill Bill 3. What it could be, after the break.
While saying he’s ‘wide open’ to possibilities (meaning: take all this with a healthy grain of salt)Varietysays Tarantino mentioned two genres in particular: the Western and a ’20s/’30s ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’ type of gangster picture.
He’s talked Western before, tellingEmpirenot too long ago, “Well I still want to do a Western, I haven’t done a Western yet. I keep flirting about with it, but I haven’t done it yet.” Granted, there are Western influences aplenty in theKill Billfilms already, and his love forThe Searchersand Sergio Leone shows up in both theKill Billfilms andInglourious Basterds. And while he’s saying now that he’d be into ’re-imagining' the Western or gangster picture genres, he’salreadybeen part of a significant Western re-imagining in the form ofSukiyaki Western Django.
But somehow I’m still more interested in that than his gangster picture. While he hasn’t done period gangsters, we’ve got three great movies from him that deal intimately with the modern version of those characters. The run of films fromReservoir DogstoJackie Browncould easily stand as the director’s stamp on the gangster genre. Meanwhile, his frequent Western references and leaning on music from Ennio Morricone and other famed Spaghetti Western composers suggests that’s something he could really use to get out of his system. I’m voting for the oater.
