Quentin Tarantino‘s longtime mantra as a filmmaker has been exiting on a high note. He plans to retire from making movies with a tenth movie and leaving with an arguably unimpeachable body of work as a legacy. However, it’s been unclear what that project could be despite some recent teases he was pondering returning to a long-gestating “Kill Bill 3” with Uma Thurman reprising the role of Beatrix Kiddo aka, The Bride. He’s even suggested that he’d be fine finishing with nine films, as “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” was well-received and landed Brad Pitt a Best Supporting Actor Oscar statue.
He’s been so happy with “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” he’s been writing a “Bounty Law” spinoff series and recently published a novel expanding upon the film’s events. While promoting the book on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” he briefly reiterated his retirement plans (as he did again just recently) and mentioned that he once considered remaking his first directorial effort, “Reservoir Dogs,” as that tenth pic.
“I’ve actually considered about doing a remake of Reservoir Dogs as my last movie. I won’t do it, internet, alright, but I considered it,” Tarantino told Bill Maher during their one-on-one chat while downplaying his current desire to remake it. Unfortunately, Tarantino didn’t elaborate beyond that, not offering details on the take or how different the proposed remake might be.
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Released in 1992, “Reservoir Dogs” featured an electric cast that included Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn, Lawrence Tierney, and Tarantino himself as a group of Los Angeles thieves that deal with the repercussions of a diamond heist gone bad and they suspect one of them is working for the cops. It was a solid critical hit and was even more impressive than it was made on a poultry budget of $1.2 million; Tarantino’s budgets these days are in the $75-100 million range.
What Tarantino will ultimately choose to make as his final film is unknown as he’s teased multiple ideas in the past, including a 1930s era gangster flick. The gangster ideas apparently carried over to the “Star Trek” film Tarantino was working on with “The Revenant” screenwriter Mark L. Smith, but that project seems to have been put on ice. Tarantino has a love for Italian director Sergio Leone and homaging his crime epic “Once Upon A Time In America” wouldn’t be hard to imagine, as he’s talked at length about his love for it.