The 'Django Unchained' director says his retirement days are coming close, 'I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.'
- Nov 11, 2014
AceShowbiz - Quentin Tarantino has revealed his retirement plan. During the AFM recently, the Oscar-nominated director dropped a hint at when he would step away from the industry as saying, "I don't believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off."
He added as quoted by Deadline, "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. If, later on, I come across a good movie, I won't not do it just because I said I wouldn't. But ten and done, leaving them wanting more, that sounds right."
Tarantino has so far directed eight movies. "The Hateful Eight" is his next project. It's about a group of outlaws taking shelter in one place during a bad weather. "It's less inspired by one Western movie than by Bonanza, The Virginians, High Chaparral," the helmer explained.
"Twice per season, those shows would have an episode where a bunch of outlaws would take the lead characters hostage. They would come to the Ponderosa and hold everybody hostage, or to go Judge Garth's place - Lee J. Cobb played him - in The Virginians, and take hostages."
"There would be a guest star like David Carradine, Darren McGavin, Claude Akins, Robert Culp, Charles Bronson or James Coburn. I don't like that storyline in a modern context, but I love it in a Western where you would pass halfway through the show to find out if they were good or bad guys, and they all had a past that was revealed."
"I thought, what if I did a movie starring nothing but those characters? No heroes, no Michael Landons. Just a bunch of nefarious guys in a room, all telling back stories that may or may not be true. Trap those guys together in a room with a blizzard outside, give them guns, and see what happens."
The upcoming western movie stars Bruce Dern, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Demian Bichir, Channing Tatum, Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
