Not bloody likely! Despite numerous articles claiming that Tarantino was going to make a soccer trilogy – its not true.
After running an article touting the Tarantino soccer movie theory yesterday, the Guardian Unlimited ran this correction today:
Quentin Tarantino has no direct connection with plans for Goal! despite the suggestion of the headline, Tarantino plans Premier footie flick, page 7, yesterday. The film is a project backed by the producers of some of Tarantino’s films.
Carradine says:
“Kill Bill is some of my best work. The other thing is, for the first time for a large audience, I’m not doing an accent or a funny walk or pretending to be somebody else. It was written, really, around me.”
Carradine also says that he had a hand in writing some of the script:
“We wrote a little bit of it, I say just a little bit because Quentin is the author., We’d smoke a cigar in the evening and talk and talk and talk and a week later there’s a rewrite and it has that conversation in it. I talk endlessly. Basically I’m doing the Samuel L Jackson part in this movie. I’m just talking my head off, in between killing people.”
There have been rumors of Quentin Tarantino making a ‘Vega Brothers’ movie for years now. The movie is supposed to reunite Vic & Vincent Vega (Michael Madsen from Reservoir Dogs and John Travolta from Pulp Fiction) in a prequel of some sort. Today, Dark Horizons posted the following snippit:
The Vega Brothers: Long ago it was thought the two brother characters who appeared in separate Tarantino flicks would come together in one movie – now could it be finally going ahead? ‘Tim’ has the details: “I auditioned for a role and got chatting with the lovely casting director who indicated the “vega brothers” movie is going ahead. She says it will be huge because its a huge ensemble, and says it’s going to have Travolta in it, Madsen, Samuel L. Jackson and all the Tarantino regulars – but a lot of roles available for young women, because it’s set in bars and nightclubs, hence, strippers, barmaids, waitress roles will be available. Tarantino wants to do it later this year. I would so love to be a part of this but she said nearly every male role is a ‘name’”.
The second to last sentence in that snippit seems unlikely, as Tarantino has talked quite a bit about beginning work on Inglorious Bastards (a war film) once Kill Bill has wrapped up. As a ‘response’ to the Dark Horizons rumor, Sebastian from the QT Archives then posted an explanation of why ‘Vega Brothers’ is a rumor and nothing more.
ABC News Online explores (not very deeply) whether David Carradine’s role in Kill Bill will revive his career in the same way that Pulp Fiction kick-started John Travolta’s. I tend to doubt it. Unlinke Carradine, Travolta was actually a very popular actor once upon a time. His role in Pulp Fiction simply re-introduced his abilities to an audience that hadn’t seen all that much of him since … well, since Saturday Night Fever.
Carradine, on the other hand was never as popular as Travolta, and has worked alot since his glory days on the Kung Fu TV series. As a result, his role in this film won’t seem as novel as Travolta’s in Pulp Fiction.
This isn’t much of a suprise since the filming and post-production dragged on for months beyond schedule. But today is the first official mention I’ve seen that Tarantino’s Kill Bill will not be at the Cannes Film Festival.
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