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Tarantino To Quit Directing After Film Number 10?

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Quentin Tarantino burst onto the movie scene twenty years ago with RESERVOIR DOGS and was followed up by the multi-stranded non linear plotted PULP FICTION. The films saw him cemented instantly onto the list of best directors ever, with follow up movies DJANGO UNCHAINED, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and the KILL BILL series further proving his worth. Tarantino fanatics though may want to start bracing themselves as it seems that the outspoken visionary is planning his retirement. Whilst speaking sat a Q and A panel for his latest project THE HATEFUL EIGHT  he remarked that he’d quite like to fill his time “writing plays and books, going gracefully into [his] tender years.” He followed this up saying:

 “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 10-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 10th, do a good job and don’t screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career.”

He did later cover his tracks should he have a change of heart stating that:

“If, later on, I come across a good movie, I won’t not do it just because I said I wouldn’t. But 10 and done, leaving them wanting more – that sounds right.”

THE HATEFUL EIGHT, which will star Jennifer Jason Leigh, Channing Tatum, Kurt Russell, and of course Samuel L. Jackson, will be his ninth film meaning that we have a while until he hangs up his clapperboard for good. Personally I think that Tarantino is a little overrated preferring his writing to his directing; out of all of the projects he has been involved with my favourite is TRUE ROMANCE. I fully accept of course that I’m in the minority with this view, but whatever your view it is a pretty ballsy move to announce your semi-retirement this early on. His remark about the last film having an umbilical cord to his first is rather intriguing though.

Source: Deadline

Kat Hughes is a UK born film critic and interviewer who has a passion for horror films. An editor for THN, Kat is also a Rotten Tomatoes Approved Critic. She has bylines with Ghouls Magazine, Arrow Video, Film Stories, Certified Forgotten and FILMHOUNDS and has had essays published in home entertainment releases by Vinegar Syndrome and Second Sight. When not writing about horror, Kat hosts micro podcast Movies with Mummy along with her five-year-old daughter.

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