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Tarantino to TV Guide:
I am – Hercules!!
Is the director of the four-hour “Kill Bill” warming up to the idea of creating a 22-hour story?
"I'm interested in doing a show of my own,” writer-director Tarantino says in next week’s edition of TV Guide. “This [directing the "CSI" season finale] was testing the water. There are some ideas that I've
had for movies that are too long. Most people aren't
down with four hour movies. But TV has caught up with
my aspirations. You could truly do these stories as
a TV show."
Read more about it, and about the horrific May 19 “CSI” season finale Tarantino directed, at CSIFiles.com here and here
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May 11, 2005 9:46:59 AM CDT
If only the world were crazy insane enough to allow a Tarantino
by andy dufresne
....but it aint.
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So don't hate me.
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I know he loves Alias, and Idol, and CSI, but good grief - stick with movies!
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Sounds like a fricking sweet idea to me, I bet he'd get the highest ratings ever... EVERYBODY watches Tarantino films, maybe he's gonna use some Elmore Leonard characters, that would be fricking sweeter... Or maybe this is Jules's walking the Earth and figuring shit out whilst helping people and shit like in Kung-Fu.... That would also be sweet. Whatever QT decides to do is gonna be sweet... Man I can't wait to see this shit on TV especially if it's on HBO cos they allow all the Violence and stuff but then again they'd probably just cancel it...
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May 11, 2005 10:24:00 AM CDT
The Bloodsplattered Adventures Deadly Viper Assassination Squad?
by zombiesolutions
or Fox Force Five as they were known in a previous incarnation? i'd watch either one with joy. all the profanity could be kept in too -- just bleeped (which would add to the grindhouseiness). more importantly -- where's the KILL BILL videogame?!?! that's what NEEDS to be made. Tarantino -- one of the worlds best trash art film collagists.
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I would watch. Does anyone know when his CSI airs.
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May 11, 2005 10:26:37 AM CDT
For a guy who doesn't want to be working in his 60s, Tarantino n
by barry egan
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"Well, you *are* aware there is an invention called television, and *on* this invention, they show shows, right?"
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for every fantasy project he ran his yap about one minute and forgot the next, he'd have... uh... a lot of fucking nickels.
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it could be better than band of brothers.
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...about the next thing Tarantino has expressed an interest in doing, I'm reminded of that movie with Dudley Moore where he gets the inmates in an asylum to write ad copy (Crazy People?). He asks: "Who wants to be in advertising?" and everyone raises their hands eagerly. Then someone else asks: "Who wants to be a fire truck?" and they all start hopping up and down, raising their hands even more excitedly. I love most of what Tarantino's been involved with as a writer, but the guy has the most debilitating case of Adult ADD I've ever seen when it comes to settling on a new project and following through. Again, I blame all the coke.
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I'm with Childe Roland on this. I'm excited by the idea of QT directing and producing his own TV show, and I hope it happens, but I'll believe it when I see it. If it happens, though... hmmm...
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I'm tired of everyone inserting him in "he should do X". Fact is QT has his own unique style and he definitely puts himself up in a director-as-star role. He's an arrogant showoff. He's a very talented arrogant showoff, and that makes his movies entertaining. But I wouldn't want him near Star Trek or any other property that I love for itself. But if he wants to do his own TV show I'm all for it. Could be fun. Just stick it on cable so he doesn't get nailed by the censors.
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Tarantino says a lot of shit that never comes to fruition. I love the guy but assuming his project pattern stays the same we won't see anything from him for about another five years.
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Nice pilot, but it sure did peter the fuck out.
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There's only one good 3 food items going for a walk joke and it's this. Three peanuts were walking down a dark alley and one was assaulted ...
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more like 12
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Tarantino, not exactly on a par with Takashi Miike on the ouput department but then who is? Also, anyone who has any idea what Gozu or Izo was about, I'm open to hearing theories ...
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May 11, 2005 1:00:57 PM CDT
"22 episodes is not 22 hours - more like 12" Em it's more like 9
by blarneyman
Each hour of US programming has close to 20 minutes of commercials, so each show runs about 40 minutes (give or take a minute)... thus it's only 9 hours of scripted TV.
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...but on average it seems to be more like 43 minutes. But yeah
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I can just see it now..."Ralph, just shut the fuck up and put the fucking suit on!" "Screw you, Bill! How would YOU like to wear a pair of stupid fucking tights and have people think you're one of the motherfucking Super Friends?"
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but I just wanted to illustrate how a big time film director can push a series but have it get destroyed by the demands of weekly tv. Getting shoved in to that Friday night slot just killed it. It's ratings just got too low for Fox and they treated it like a redheaded step child. Shit, I barely saw a commercial for it after it's premiere. But had it been a film with the same audience, it would have had a No. 1 weekend opening. If QT goes with HBO, it'd do fine, but on a broadcast net, no fucking way.
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Hey, that's cool. Maybe he can force himself into a guest shot, make a total ass out of himself and make out with a really hot asian chick who he could never get in real life! or has that already happened?
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Ok look. The Tarantino hype has been going on for far far too long. In fact, 10 years too long to be exact.
Reservoir Dogs was a masterpiece, Pulp Fiction was sublime. Tarantino -
Not sure that's possible.
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Reality tv sucks the intelligence out of your head. This is a proven scientific fact, and Survivor/American Idol/Amazing Race/Nanny 911/etc all make me want to shove sharpened pencils in my eyes. Oh, and It will be interesting to see how much the TV networks let QT get away with...
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It's Welles all over again.
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You expect me to read all this? It's like like 4 fucking pages.
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Listen Ike Godsey, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna
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That's usually my rant! And it usually draws a lot of fanboy flack in these talkbacks. I agree with about 99.9% of what you typed in that epic freaking post of yours (although I think Tony Scott should get a lot of the credit for True Romance, Roger Avary should get partial credit for that, Dogs and Pulp, and that QT should at least acknowledge City of Fire as his inspiration for Reservoir Dogs). The guy was a talented writer who directed two films astonishingly well and then just became self-derivative. I still think there was more than the drug os success sabotaging him (unless that's a Hollywood street tag for cocaine), but the last thing he did of any real cinematic worth was Pulp Fiction (and I prefer Dogs, myself). So you're not alone in your perceptions, for whatever that's worth.
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and CSI blows. No character development. Just 'case of the week', 'bad guy of the week' boredom. This is TV for dummies.
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Bad career move there Mr. Brown, bad move.
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Just think of the remake he could do of battle royale in 22 episodes.
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All he does is talk and talk about things that he wants done whether it be in movies and television. Just do it. I was always hoping for the movie with Michael Madsen and John Travolta as the Vega brothers from Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. I think that would have been great. But all he does is yak about it and it will never see the light of the day. Sigh.
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its a rumor even though quintin said it he plans on=might happen. I think it would be a better idea for quint to tell all his ideas to rodrigues because rr can get a movie done and start the next at the same time.
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Then tune in to "Attack of the SHow!" on the G4 network today. Tom Savini will be premiering his new videogame, which is supposed to be the goriest of all time!
www.g4tv.com/aots
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Is on G4 at 4pm PST, 7pm EST.
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AND STICK WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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May 11, 2005 7:06:04 PM CDT
is there anything Quentin thinks without saying it out loud in f
by hypeendshere
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Does this strike anyone else as a particularly good match? Have QT write and/or direct an entire season of 24 and the body count will go through the roof.
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May 11, 2005 10:23:21 PM CDT
Someone gets burried alive on Tarantino's "CSI" episode. How ori
by bigtuna
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Great rant, I agree totally. And actually I think even Pulp Ficton had problems from the storytelling perspective (still a fun movie though). And by the way I personally think TV is fantastic right now. There are a lot of great shows on the air right now, and yes, some very original ones. Production values are better than they've ever been. Televison actors are stronger than ever, and the writing blows most shows from past decades out of the water. If you want to compare television episodes directly to film of course they'll pale by comparison. But compared to past TV, this is the golden era of television.
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Don't let QT anywhere near any established property unless it's already such crap that nobody cares about it. He'll just do whatever the hell he wants to it and push himself onto it as the star of the show. No thanks.
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TV shows has he directed?
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That is also Did an ER...
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Love to see a Quintin TV show...
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be kinda like twin peaks meets Pulp Fiction.
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more crap that will get the axe after 3 episodes.
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There, I said it. Resevoir Dogs = Mildly overrated. Pulp Fiction = Wildly overrated. Jackie Brown = Unwatchable.
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You wrote, "Resevoir Dogs = Mildly overrated. Pulp Fiction = Wildly overrated. Jackie Brown = Unwatchable." All right, so you don't like Tarantino. That's cool. But I disagree with you on all of the above.
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I'll bet that's the way he goes. About a video shop which has film geeks both working and shopping there. It'll last a half season at most because it'll be so impenetrable. And it will have that guy from The Dukes Of Hazzards on it every week doing a monologue. He'll walk in, take off his cowboy hat, do a fifteen minute straight to camera piece and then fuck off. Oh, and to boost ratings and save the series during sweeps he'll have Pam grier come in a shoot someone and then jiggle. Yes, yes. That will indeed be a show stopper.
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...so many folks coming around to the reality that QT doesn't walk on water. In fact, lately he's barely been dog paddling. I still maintain he has (or, perhaps more accurately, had) one of the best ears for dialogue in the business. He just lacks the focus to be an effective director anymore (and he may have gotten very, very lucky with how well Dogs turned out because, as pointed out above, Pulp had some problems). Kill Bill as released was just all over the place and pretty pointless. I have difficulty imagining how a differently cut version of the film would work, but I'm willing to give it a skeptical viewing. Barring some out-of-his-ass impressive (and timely) next outing as a writer/director, Quentin should go back to script doctoring. It really is what he does best.
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QT only reworked the last beats of Ringo Lam
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"Does this strike anyone else as a particularly good match? Have QT write and/or direct an entire season of 24 and the body count will go through the roof."
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That's some freaky deaky shit.
I'm just reading up on the progress of this talkback (ok ok so i'm seeing what comments anyone made about my post but come on, we all do it) and as i'm living in South Korea we get American TV a day late and who walks on to Letterman but the QT'ster himself.
I got to say, the fuckers still got a shit load of spark and is full of ideas so who knows. He could catch a second wind.
. . . as far as Dogs being 'inspired' by City of fire. I don't care as it's Tarantinos execution (if you s'cuse the pun) that makes his early stuff great not the actual story line or the 'mind bending' timelines.
. . . . So he lifts dialogue too. You might find in a Walter Mathau film called 'Charley Varrick' that the mafia guy advises the bank manager that they will go to work on him with a 'pair of pliers and a blow torch'. I don't mind that he used that as it's a cool, nasty as fuck phrase and is a beautiful punchline is Pulp.
By the way, why do people keep saying QT's movies are violent. In the case of RD, PF and TR they arn't so bad. it just feels more violent cause you care about the characters more.
. . . Just to be clear. My post was not attacking QT. It was an effort to bring to lighy the long distance sicophancy directed to the cult of QT.
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May 12, 2005 11:51:24 AM CDT
Right I'm interested in doing my own show, Alright alright. I'm
by orionsangels
alright alright alright!!!
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Let's just hope that this all isn't inspired by his work on CSI, because I think the last thing the world needs is yet another CSI show, with or without QT at the helm. Have any of you seen the spin-offs lately, I swear that NY and Miami use the same scripts. No really, I think they do.
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QT's style is too edgy to be on the big networks, he would have to go on FX or HBO\Showtime. Just because he said he wants to do somethings on TV doesn't mean he would be writing\directing every episode...... he could be like Mel Gibson with "Complete Savages" and direct an episode or two and have minor guest appearances before being cancelled....... OR it could be a hint that he'll be doing an animated show a la SW: Clone Wars. but until 2007 I won't have a clue if it will even happen, because he missed the creative boat for next season 05-06 unless he wants to be a midseason replacement show.
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Could work, could fail, but if Tarantino wants to do a TV show, I'm there for at least the first couple of weeks. There's no way of knowing it'll "suck" yet, especially when we don't even know what it's about.
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