Every film, or almost, of Quentin Tarantino is welcomed as a real success by fans, so much so that the idea of sequels to his greatest masterpieces was wanted. However, the American filmmaker has never made one (if we put aside Kill Bill, which he considers to be one big project), although he tried. Here is why, and the list of his aborted projects.
Tarantino and his ultimate film
One last film and then stop? This question that shakes the web around the end of Quentin Tarantino’s career in the cinema continues to torment the most illustrious fans. The cinematic genius behind Kill Bill Where pulp Fiction almost seem to play it. After announcing in turn that he intended to make a final film, then putting away the camera, “Q” announced last summer that he would like to work on a remake of Rambobased on David Morell’s book released in 1972, and casting Kurt Russell as a sheriff, and Adam Driver as Rambo. At the same time, we are still waiting for a Potential Kill Bill 3.
Nevertheless, if the ideas fuse in the mind of Tarantino, the projects do not always materialize. Especially since he wanted to put away his filmmaker cap following a good rating, which his last feature film got Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood (2019). A film rewarded as being the most personal film of this worshiper of Los Angeles, in particular of Hollywood and the history of its cinematographic industry.
Another thing, the 59-year-old director seems to be heading to the small screen. Evidenced by a possible recovery of the reins of the series justified, sequel to the western created by Graham Yost.
Not immediately, why?
Still, the one who is considered the genius of independent cinema at the release of pulp Fiction in 1994 had nine films to his credit, more or less all hailed at their fair value, and different from each other (although several themes recur: the western, the gangster film, the war film, the blaxploitation, the series B tinged with slasher). Films in which certain characters or lines are embedded in pop culture, and which fans would have liked to see a sequel (Kill Bill: Volume 1 & 2 being considered as a single work divided into two parts).
Why ? Whenever Tarantino has embarked on a project to make a sequel to one of his films, ” something else ‘ came out on top and got in the way of his goal adding other aborted movies to his roster, this one being already long. Between internal conflicts between actorsthe fact that he does not have not worked more on the storyor quite simply, that he has decided to focus on other projectsthe reasons are many.
Aborted projects
The failure of the project Grindhouse after 2007 – American exploitation cinema known for operating in double-programs, with all that characterizes it: very pretty girls, badass heroes, hemoglobin galore or kitsch- and special effects a third film centered on old-school kung fu after Planet Terror and Boulevard of Death is part of.
Let us also quote Killer Crow as a spin-off ofInglorious Basterds. “QT” had at the time regretted having had to set aside a certain number of ideas for the final version of his film, thus material for the creation of a new film, the story of which was to take place in 1944, shortly before the Allied landings in Normandy, and on the sidelines of the adventures of Lieutenant Aldo Raine and his troop. Tarantino had mentioned the possibility of making the feature film in 2015 for the last time, now 7 years ago.
Finally, let us remember Django/Zorroan unlikely crossover planned as a sequel to Django Unchained (2012) and should focus on the budding friendship between the bounty hunter and Zorro. A project taken from an adaptation of the Django/Zorro graphic novels created by Tarantino, Matt Wagner and Esteve Polls and published between 2014 and 2015. Unfortunately, the lack of news around the project is not a good sign.
The news around his 11th film Kill Bill 3, as a true sequel to Kill Bill 2 gives the horizon of a release for 2028. But Uma Thurman did not fail to shower the hopes of the fans who have been waiting for the film for ages: “ I don’t really see the film materializing immediately on the horizon… ” she announced last February.
Finally, we also mention Quentin Tarantino’s project to make a series Bounty Lawthe western series in which plays Rick Dalton, the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Considering the fact that the director seems more and more to abandon the camera in favor of the novels, this sounds like another missed date.