We return to discussing the fateful tenth film by Quentin Tarantino, about which, during the summer, Robert Richardson, the director of photography, an Oscar winner and the director’s regular collaborator, spoke. His words had revealed little to us, other than that it would be something completely new and that the filmmaker would dedicate himself to it once the performances of the theatrical play The Popinjay Cavalier were finished. No denial or confirmation had come from Tarantino, who, however, on a recent episode of The Graham Norton Show, joined the other guests (Ellen DeGeneres, Colin Farrell and Gemma Chan) and confirmed that he had finished the screenplay of what he still today asserts is his final feature film for cinema. Here is his revelation:
I’ve written a screenplay that I like a great deal. But I want to devote myself to the theater production and understand who I am. Then I’ll go home to spend time with my family and live a little, after which I’ll see what I want to do.
Unfortunately Quentin has given no information about the content of the script or the cinematic genre the film would belong to, so we will have to wait a long time. In the meantime, also during The Graham Norton Show, which he hadn’t appeared on for a full ten years, our man added another piece to the mosaic of The Popinjay Cavalier, originally intended to be a film project and featuring Sacha Baron Cohen. We know it will debut in March 2027 at the Phoenix Theatre in London, after a few previews at the end of February. The show will run through June 13 and has been described as a swashbuckling comedy. The tile, or rather the information, can be summed up in one adjective: exciting. It’s a somewhat thin teaser, so we’ll have to wait a few months.
Meanwhile, on November 26, The New Misadventures of Cliff Booth will hit theaters, a spinoff of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood for which Quentin Tarantino only wrote the screenplay, and indeed the direction is by David Fincher. And then we must not forget the miniseries The Bounty Law, originally a fake Western TV series that had made the character Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) famous also in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Tarantino announced that he had written the script for 5 or 6 episodes, each about 30 minutes, drawing inspiration from the classic shortened Western TV formats of the 1960s.
Back to cinema, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was released in 2019, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and also featured Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate. It earned the director 10 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director) and two wins: for Best Leading Actor (Brad Pitt) and for Best Production Design.
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