Hollywood filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is set to debut his first-ever play in the West End.
The 62 year old American, who has produced films including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Django Unchained, says he’s hoping to move to the UK with his family next year in order to bring the project to life – and that it might also be adapted into a film if it proves successful.
Tarantino has dabbled with the world of theatre before. He adapted his own 2019 film, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, into a play – he actually wrote it in the “six or seven months” after writing the film – and seems to be keen to keep the momentum going.
Though we have no idea what the play is or what it’s about, we do know one thing: it’s done.
“Oh, the play is all written. It is absolutely the next thing I’m going to do, it’s absolutely my next project,” he told the Church of Tarantino podcast. “We’ll start the ball rolling on it in January because I just figure it’s probably going to take up a year and a half to two years of my life.”
“If it’s a success... I get to do the tour version of it, and all that – I’m preparing for it to be a success,” he added. “If it’s a flop, then I’ll be done very quickly. But even starting from scratch, it’ll probably be a year before it’s in front of an audience.” He added that he was planning for a West End launch.
In the podcast, Tarantino also teased that filming had started for The Adventures of Cliff Booth, which is a sequel to Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. The film, which will star Brad Pitt, is being directed by David Fincher – though Tarantino wrote the script.
Previously, he has said he plans to retire after directing ten films (he counts the Kill Bill films as one) – of which the next will be his last. According to Tarantino, though, he’s in “no rush” to return to filmmaking any time soon, instead choosing to spend time with his children.
“I kind of want to not do whatever movie I end up doing until my son is at least 6,” he said in January. “That way he will know what’s going on, he’ll be there and it will be a memory for the rest of his life… my daughter is already such a genius, she’ll just get it.”
