10 Weirdest Movies Quentin Tarantino Actually Wanted To Make
6. A Blaxploitation Movie Set In World War II - Killer Crow
It's been 11 years since we last saw Quentin Tarantino bring his exploitation sensibilities to the hostile world of war-torn Europe. In 2012, however, he proposed his final entry in the Django-Inglourious Basterds trilogy to be exactly that. This World War II film, previously a subplot in the movie itself, would instead focus on black troops who have "been f*cked over by the American military and kind of go apesh**. They basically – the way Lt. Aldo Raine and the Basterds are having an 'Apache resistance' – [the] black troops go on an Apache warpath and kill a bunch of white soldiers and white officers on a military base and are just making a warpath to Switzerland... I have most of that written. It's ready to go; I just have to write the second half of it."
Since then no updates on the project have emerged, although Tarantino recently revealed that he is working on a novel that would see him finally return to the setting. The book would focus on a WWII veteran whose experiences in the war make him jaded to Hollywood movies.
“As far as he’s concerned, Hollywood movies are movies. And so then, all of a sudden, he starts hearing about these foreign movies by Kurosawa and Fellini. And so he’s like, ‘Well, maybe they might have something more than this phony Hollywood stuff.’”
With the extra room to breathe that a novel allows, we may very well see some of those exciting Killer Crow ideas crop up again.