Quentin Tarantino reveals that he plans to quit filmmaking after The Hateful Eight Movie
Quentin Tarantino says he will retire after making his tenth movie. Deadline is currently reporting that Quentin Tarantino is debating whether he will retire after making his tenth movie. He dropped that bombshell during a question and answer for the buyers at the American Film Market:
“I don’t believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off,” he said. “I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. I do think directing is a young man’s game and I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie. I’m not trying to ridicule anyone who thinks differently, but I want to go out while I’m still hard…I like that I will leave a ten-film filmography, and so I’ve got two more to go after this. It’s not etched in stone, but that is the plan. If I get to the tenth, do a good job and don’t screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career. If, later on, I come across a good movie, I won’t not do it just because I said I wouldn’t. But ten and done, leaving them wanting more, that sounds right.” (via)
It looks like Quentin Tarantino will be leaving on a big note after he finishes making The Hateful Eight. The critically acclaimed director has made it prerogative to stop digital filmmaking and continue the tradition of 70mm film and maybe retiring from film will convince others to quit using digital filmmaking equipment.
“I know this business has gone digital, even more in foreign countries than in America where it’s 90%,” he added. “Digital presentation is just television in public, we’re all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. I have worked 20 years, too long to accept the diminishing results of having it come into theaters with the quality of a f*cking DVD, shot with the same sh*t they shoot soap operas with. It’s just not good enough for me.”
Aiming to create the kind of road show production from big spectacles from the 1960s, where movies would screen in big theaters and opera houses like an event, Tarantino lays out the release plan for “The Hateful Eight.” “We’re doing this 70 mm, and we are trying to create an event,” Tarantino explained. “I need to know from all of you if this can last a month in your territory in that format, or two weeks. Then we roll it out in 35 and eventually digital. We’re not doing the usual 70 mm, where you shoot 35 mm and blow it up. We’re shooting 65 mm which, when you turn it into a print, is 70mm. Panavision is not only behind this movie, they look at it as a legacy.”(via)
Quentin Tarantino began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992. Quentin Tarantino’s work on Reservoir Dogs is regarded as a classic and cult hit, it was called the “Greatest Independent Film of All Time” by Empire. Its popularity was boosted by the release in 1994 of his second film, Pulp Fiction, a crime film that became a major critical and commercial success and judged the greatest film of the past 25 years by Entertainment Weekly.
Quentin Tarantino’s new movie, The Hateful Eight centers around a post-Civil War Wyoming, where bounty hunters try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception. The Hateful Eight features Channing Tatum, Walton Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Samuel L. Jackson.
Overall, Quentin Tarantino is worried about his legacy and what he will leave behind after he finishes The Hateful Eight. But, I highly doubt that Tarantino will ever quit making movies. It sounds like a publicity stunt for The Hateful Eight.
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