With those Inglourious Basterds well behind him, Quentin Tarantino is ready to get back in the director's chair.
So what's next for a guy who usually make a lot of news, and noise, with his movies? Kill Bill: Vol. 3 perhaps ?
Not yet:
According to The Huffington Post, the director's talent agency, William Morris Endeavor, confirms Tarantino has finished the script for a movie called Django Unchained, which he plans to shoot in the classic style of spaghetti Westerns. And he has at least one basterd set to help him make it.
Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz (aka the Nazi in Basterds who wasn't Hitler) has reportedly been cast. And while plot details are hazy, the agency did say, "It's a Western whose lead character is a former slave who is in league with Waltz to save his wife from an evil plantation owner."
Fortunately, this project doesn't seem to have derailed the director's plans for a third Kill Bill installment--set and released 10 years after Vol. 2.
The classic spaghetti Westerns--A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, etc.--were known for their highly stylized look and violence, and with Tarantino's vision, this could be the ultimate homage.
And while those earlier films sent a then-unknown Clint Eastwood into the stratosphere, perhaps Django can launch somebody new? Or bring a career back from the dead (hi, John Travolta)?
So who would you cast as a former slave gunslingin' for revenge, Tarantino-style?