Will He? Won't He? I Think He Will: Quentin Tarantino To Retire After 10 Films

When I read this piece by Ben Arnold on Yahoo! Movies I thought "Good idea".  In a couple years I'll be sixty and to be honest after over 35 years of daily grind against two-faced, lying, back-stabbing and ungrateful creators and companies it is an option.

"I want to go out while I’m still hard…" the number of times I've said that to a woman....er...

But the story here is about Tarantino so...

Quentin Tarantino To Retire After 10 Films

Ben ArnoldUK Movies Writer11 November 2014

Quentin Tarantino has said that he’s going to call time on his directing career after 10 films.

The auteur behind films like ‘Pulp Fiction’ and more recently ‘Django Unchained’ said that being behind the camera is ‘a young man’s game’.

But it means that after just two more movies, one of which will be his forthcoming western ‘The Hateful Eight’, he’ll be done (he appears to be counting ‘Kill Bill’ as one movie, and perhaps ignoring ‘Death Proof’ and his debut ‘My Best Friend’s Birthday’ altogether).

Speaking to Deadline, he said: “I don’t believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off.

“I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. I do think directing is a young man’s game and I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie.

“I’m not trying to ridicule anyone who thinks differently, but I want to go out while I’m still hard…

“I like that I will leave a ten-film filmography, and so I’ve got two more to go after this. It’s not etched in stone, but that is the plan.

“If I get to the tenth, do a good job and don’t screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career.

All that said, he added that if the right project comes along, he would perhaps consider making it, but the plan remains.

“If, later on, I come across a good movie, I won’t not do it just because I said I wouldn’t,” he said. “But ten and done, leaving them wanting more, that sounds right.”

Tarantino, a former video shop clerk, dazzled the world with his debut feature, ‘Reservoir Dogs’, in 1992 when it was screened at the Sundance Festival.

He went on to make the Palme d’Or-winning ‘Pulp Fiction’ in 1994, and then the likes of ‘Jackie Brown’ and ‘Inglorious Basterds’.

He’s previously said that he’d retire at 60 – he’s now 51 – so that timescale could also figure.

The director recently took on ownership of the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, using film rather than digital projection – a subject he’s often brought to the fore, not only in terms of projection but in his filmmaking too.

“As long as I’m alive, and as long as I’m rich, the New Beverly will be there, showing films shot on 35mm,” he said.

“If it actually gets to the place where you can’t show 35mm film in theatres anymore and everything is digital projection, I won’t even make it to 60.”

Tarantino also recently revealed the cast for ‘The Hateful Eight’, which is now very much back on following the well-publicised script leak earlier this year.

Producers The Weinstein Company dropped the following announcement last week:

“The Hateful Eight are: Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (DJANGO UNCHAINED) as Major Marquis Warren, Golden Globe nominee Kurt Russell (ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK) as John “The Hangman” Ruth, Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE) as Daisy Domergue, Emmy nominee Walton Goggins (Justified) as Chris Mannix, Academy Award nominee Demian Bichir (A BETTER LIFE) as Bob, Academy Award nominee Tim Roth (RESERVOIR DOGS) as Oswaldo Mobray, Michael Madsen (RESERVOIR DOGS) as Joe Gage and Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern (NEBRASKA) General Sanford Smithers. Also, Channing Tatum (FOXCATCHER) has signed on for a role in the project.”

It starts filming in January for a planned autumn 2015.

Image credits: Deadline/Weinstein Company







 

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