By Quentin Tarantino popped up on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast this week to discuss all sorts of things across a span of two hours for what is just ‘Part 1’ of the interview.
One of those things, namely what constitutes a perfect trilogy and how he’ll never watch “Toy Story 4,” was heavily talked about yesterday across social media.
Today, a further transcript of that conversation has touched upon two projects that were linked as Tarantino’s next directorial effort before both effectively disappeared.
One was a new “Star Trek” film which had some interesting rumors regarding its story, the other being “The Movie Critic” which seemed to be gearing up with Brad Pitt set to star before it collapsed.
Going by Tarantino though, much of what was reported on about these movies has been false:
“Well, it [Star Trek] is never going to happen, but there has been so much misinformation about what it was going to be, nothing but misinformation. Because I’m not on Instagram and…social media.
Consequently, if you’re Joe Schlomoko and you’re a transient reporter of some kind, if you hear Quentin is going to do a ‘Star Trek’ film or ‘The Movie Critic’ or anything, it’s a lot like that guy who wrote that Howard Hughes biography that ended up being a hoax.
They can say anything. ‘Quentin is going to cast Tom Cruise, it’s for sure’. The thing that was kind of funny about ‘The Movie Critic’ that I was going to cast Paul Walter Hauser… they just think he looks like a critic, so that’s why they picked him [laughs].
They write it in Showbiz Daily or whatever, and that gets picked up in 140 pieces. Because I’m not shutting it down, because I’m not all connected [on social media], that is reported as true, and it’s ‘true’ for a couple of weeks because no one knows anything better, and I am not filling them in.”
So what is he doing next? Tarantino touched upon his desire to do a stage play saying: “I’m leaning more towards writing – or trying for a while – theater, and in theater, it would be funny stuff… if it’s a popular play, then I’ll probably make a movie. I haven’t done it. [yet], but we’ll see what happens.”
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