In addition to saying he would retire in 2020, QT also kind of sort of laid out his future film plans at the Empire Film Awards:

“What’s happening with Friday The 13th? Nothing at all! It’s a complete lie. I like Jason and everything, but I’ve no intention of directing a movie! New Line talked to me about it, but it was a complete fabrication, that article. I would love to do a horror film. I’m just saying it’s not going to be Friday The 13th…”

That seems concrete enough, so I guess we can scratch this idea as rumor. As for what he is going to do next, well thats left a bit open:

“My next film is probably going to be Inglorious Bastards, yeah. I’ve written scenes. I’ve written a lot of it but now I have to sit down and start putting it together in a script that I can start shooting. And that’s a different thing.”

Thats my emphasis on the ‘probably’ in QT’s statement. I’d love to see Inglorious Bastards next – and sometime soon please, but until there is confirmation that the filming has actually begun … well, lets just say that Tarantino has enough different ideas in his head that he could end up going in alot of different directions.