Imagine “Kill Bill: The Broadway Edition!”
If Quentin Tarantino gets his way, it could be a reality. Or something like it.
The Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind “Pulp Fiction,” “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django Unchained” revealed that he has pivoted from making movies to making theater.
Tarantino revealed his stage plans in a conversation with Elvis Mitchell at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday. (AP)
“If you’re wondering what I’m doing right now, I’m writing a play,” he told Elvis Mitchell during a discussion at the Sundance Film Festival. “It’s probably going to be the next thing I end up doing. If it’s a fiasco I probably won’t turn it into a movie. But if it’s a smash hit? It might be my last movie.”
Tarantino has been teasing the status of a new film after what would’ve been his tenth and final big screen feature, “The Movie Critic,” hitting delays amid the 2023 Hollywood Writers Strike. The project, with Brad Pitt reportedly attached, was scrapped soon after.
While the timeline for an actual movie remains to be seen, Broadway — which has experienced success with popular Hollywood intellectual properties such as the acclaimed “Moulin Rouge,” and most recently “Death Becomes Her” — could be a good fit for the auteur.
But raising his young children has factored into when Tarantino will get back in the director’s chair.
“I’m in no hurry to actually jump into production,” he told Mitchell. “I’ve been doing that for 30 years. Next month my son turns 5, and I have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. When I’m in America, I’m writing. When I’m in Israel? I’m an abba, which means father.”