This’ll come as a shock to everybody, but Tarantino has told Total Film Mazine that Inglorious Bastards is not next on his list of projects, and that he intends to make a kung-fu film shot in Mandarin. Here are the QT quotes:

“My next movie is gonna be another kung fu that’s gonna blow your asses off. Everyone still thinks I’m doing Inglorious Bastards next but before I do I want to do something much smaller,” Tarantino said.

“The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.

“If you’re not up to watching it with subtitles, I really want to do a full-on dubbed version. Maybe shooting two Kill Bill movies has spoiled me but fuck it – sue me.”

Maybe this is bullshit, though it wouldn’t really suprise me if it was true. The Total Film forum doesn’t have anything posted about this story just yet. The story has been picked up by loads of news sites though.

UPDATE: Here’s some more, including a few quotes from the guy that did the interview w/ Quentin.