Archive for September, 2004
Tarantino and Johnny Knoxville?
Sep 19th
Afraid so – though I’m actually a fan of Knoxville’s. But it appears that Tarantino is set to be a producer of ‘The Secret Life of Daltry Calhoun’, which stars Johnny Knoxville. Here’s the gist:
Black comedy Daltry Calhoun, set in Tennessee, will find Knoxville playing a one-time golf mogul who works to maintain his failing business when his 14-year-old daughter, a talented musician whom he hasn’t seen in years, comes to live with him.
Juliette Lewis will play Knoxville’s character’s love interest, with Elizabeth Banks, David Koechner, and Kick Gurry also on board. Sean Penn was formerly attached to the starring role.
Kill Bill On Stage?
Sep 18th
According to Twitchfilm.com, Tarantino has authorized Takashi Miike to create a stage play based on the twin sister of Go-Go Yubari from Kill Bill v1. Takashi Miike is the guy responsible for Ichi The Killer which is perhaps the most violent film ever made.
…when writing the screenplay for Kill Bill Tarantino originally gave Go Go Yubari a twin sister, a character cut out of the final script for pacing reasons. Tarantino and Miike talked about the character some and the end result was Tarantino giving Miike permission to direct a stage play based on the Yubari twin and the removed section of screenplay.
[Thanks to Todd for sending in the story.]
Tarantino In Short Film
Sep 14th
Taken right out of our Forum comes this little gem: Dance Me To The End Of Love starring a quite young Quentin Tarantino. At first, I thought this was the music video to the Leonard Cohen song of the same name, but its not. QT looks young in this thing also, but its not dated. Anybody know more about this?
Sin City Trailer
Sep 14th
Movie-List has uploaded a very cool Sin City trailer from Comic Con. Its in a big format and is quite long. Looks very interesting.
Tarantino At Venice Film Festival
Sep 7th
Quentin spent this past weekend hosting a sideline event to the Venice Film Festival – the ‘Italian kings of the Bs’ festival. This B-Movie showing featured about 20 screenings of spaghetti westerns and erotic comedy’s from the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s.
Also, thanks to MP for sending in a series of photos of QT at the event. Much appreciated.
The Guardian story does end with a strange paragraph about Inglorious Bastards:
Tarantino is also reported to have bought the rights to reproduce a B-movie by another of his heroes, Enzo Castellari, with Samuel Jackson and George Clooney tipped to star in the remake of his 1977 Second World War comedy, Inglorious Bastards.
As far as I know, thats not correct. I haven’t heard Clooney’s name mentioned in a long time (though it wouldn’t suprise me), have never heard Jackson’s name associated w/ this movie, and it is most definately not a remake.
Vega Brothers Still Alive
Sep 5th
The best indicator to the possibility of the long-rumored Vega Brothers movie is that the potential actors involved (Michael Madsen & John Travolta) continue to talk about it, and about discussions with Tarantino about the movie.
Kill Bill Casebook
Sep 4th
Amazon has a new Kill Bill product 
with no description and I can’t find anything about it, but its a Kill Bill: An Unofficial Casebook. I assume its either an analysis of the movie, how it was made, and all its connections to the martial arts films that Tarantino mentioned as inspiration, but thats just a guess. They also have a Kill Bill 2005 calander.
Also, I thought I’d just put up some of the Kill Bill DVD product images from Japan. We really seem to get screwed when it comes to the cool cover art. I didn’t include any links since these DVDs aren’t playable on Region 1 DVD players, but you can grab any of these from amazon.co.jp if you really want them.
Sony Chiba DVD Collection
Sep 3rd
I was walking thru Best Buy this past weekend and noticed this Sony Chiba DVD Collection that has Kill Bill themed cover art. I didn’t buy it, but the packaging gimmick worked – it made me look twice.
Reservoir Dogs T-Shirt
Sep 2nd
AllPosters.com is now selling t-shirts. Currently, the only Tarantino related item is a decent looking Reservoir Dogs shirt. And if you order one, or a poster, before September 8th, you can get 25% off with this code: SAVE25LD04. They do have the poster for Hero now though.
