Quentin Tarantino Confirms Western - Script In 2 Months & Will Film This Year!

Updated: Just as I was publishing this, Beaks at AICN (who clearly has the best source on this project) says Tarantino's new western movie and the western actor Franco Nero was talking about are completely different projects. So that's Nero/Carradine/Williams OUT at this stage, though Christoph Waltz is still very much attached and obviously the 'script in two months, filming this year' - part is true. Beaks also warns us not to think of the film as restricting as a 'spaghetti western' as with most Tarantino's, it will likely be made up of multiple genres and sub-genres by the time it's done. Tarantino is unlikely to be shy to the media, so I bet it won't be long until he hear more from the man in question, probably later this month at the New Beverly where Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is due to screen in the U.S. for the first time. Original Article Follows.... Ok, so we are now officially in love with this new-look Quentin Tarantino. Instead of droning on and on and on about the projects he wants to make only for us to wait a lifetime to see it happen (the first talk of Inglourious Basterds goes way back to 1997), he is now just quietly going about his business until he's ready to tell us exactly what is what. This week started off to a flyer when it was reported that Quentin Tarantino was planning a spaghetti western as his next big project and that Christoph Waltz, Franco Nero, Keith Carradine and Treat Williams had already been sounded out for roles. For the past 24 hours we have been hoping, praying that is indeed true and today came the confirmation we all wanted to here... Deadline's Mike Fleming caught up with Tarantino at a post-Oscar party where the Pulp Fiction director confirmed existence of the project and that a script is due in two months and that it should film this year with The Weinsteins. Rather than the 11 years it took Tarantino to nail down his script for his WW-II epic, Fleming says "this one came together much quicker and just flowed out of him". Fleming was unable to get much more out of the director, including whether the film will actually be titled The Angel, The Bad & The Wise - a clear homage to Leone's best work The Good, The Bad & The Ugly if I ever heard one.
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.