Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino were in Japan on some wacky bizarre food show promoting “Inglourious Basterds” recently.
As are all Japanese television appearances with American celebrities, their appearance is as weird and unsettling as Pitt’s recent braided-bead-beard. The show also reveals that Tarantino was OK with dressing like an African-American baby the last time he was on Japanese television promoting “Kill Bill.” Strange.
More eye-opening, Tarantino recently said that Brad Pitt was the one pushing for an “Inglourious Basterds” prequel which we sort of scoffed at or at least took as regular Tarantino talk: with a grain of salt. “If Brad will have his way, then [a prequel or sequel] will happen,” he told MTV. Suuure, right? But on this Japanese TV show, Pitt does corroborate this comment saying, “I’m trying to get him to make a prequel. Two of them. Three of them,” he says, the last comment being a joke.
Surely if Pitt wants a movie made it can be greenlit, but such is the power of Tarantino that even the world’s biggest star might not be able to convince him. After all, with the buttload of dough they made and Pitt and The Weinstein Company being extremely happy with how it all went down, if Quentin was dead-set on doing a ‘Inglourious’ sequel or prequel next, we’d all have heard about it by now. His thoughts are likely, “one day,” but he should also realize that the longer he waits, the more actors get older and prequels become inconceivable (see what happened with “Double V Vega”). As for what is next, Tarantino remains typically non-committal telling MTV he has a few ideas brewing, but does hint that his slavery-film idea will eventually happen one day. “The [slavery film] is definitely in the garden,” he said. “That is definitely one of my roses.”
One embed of the show is below. We’re not going to sit through the 2nd and 3rd clips, but you can see them all here.