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Quentin Tarantino has taken on movies, and now he’s ready to take over your TV screens… Maybe.
According to Variety, the renowned film director is looking to direct an eight-episode limited series next year. This is not Tarantino’s first time in television, as he directed two episodes of CSI: Crime Investigation back in 2008. There were also rumors earlier this year that Tarantino was set to direct on the revival of Justified on FX. Given Tarantino’s interest in writer Elmore Leonard, whose stories became the basis for Justified (Tarantino also adapted Leonard’s book “Rum Punch” into 1997’s Jackie Brown), it seemed possible they were due for another collaboration; however, the series has gone forward without him.
As previously reported by The Hollywood Reporter in 2016, Tarantino had announced that his tenth film would be his last. He expanded on those comments last year on the Pure Cinema Podcast, Tarantino explained how he hoped to avoid an awful final film and joked that after Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, “Maybe I should not make another movie because I could be really happy with dropping the mic.” It seems TV is his next path, though details of the series he’s working on remain unknown at the current time.
The television reveal came about during a conversation in New York on November 16. The director was speaking at The Town Hall with journalist Elvis Mitchell to promote his book “Cinema Speculation” as part of his tour. Also during the conversation, Tarantino revealed what comic book he would adapt into a film: “Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos” a Marvel comic, about Nick Fury, who is portrayed in the MCU by Samuel L. Jackson.
“Cinema Speculation” focuses mostly on the films of the 1970s that Tarantino grew up on. It is described by HarperCollins as “At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT’s and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.”
“Cinema Speculation” is currently available to purchase.
