14 DAY TRIAL // Tarantino might have famously ditched his western project “The Hateful Eight” after the script leaked on the Internet, but he's not giving up on the wild west theme. In fact, he plans to revisit his latest film, “Django Unchained,” from a new perceptive.
Variety claims that Tarantino is sitting on 90 minutes of unseen footage from the 2012 film and he's thinking of turning it into a four-hour-long cut.
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival press conference on Friday, May 3, that was in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his 1994 Palm d'Or-winning film “Pulp Fiction,” the director revealed that he doesn't plan to come out with a 4-hour version of the movie, but that he plans to turn it into a miniseries.
“It's funny. You present someone with a four-hour movie, and they roll their eyes. They go, 'I don't want to watch that!' But you show them a four-part miniseries that they like and they're dying to watch all four episodes in a row,” Tarantino said, pointing out the irony of the situation.
“It wouldn't be an endurance test. It would be a mini-series and people love those,” the director continued, explaining what he had in mind for the film about the antebellum runaway slave that turns into a deadly bounty hunter in order to punish the slave owner who bought his wife and rescue her in the process.
He also spoke about that unmentionable incident with the leaking of his “Hateful Eight” script and confessed that he's gotten over the betrayal. “I have calmed down. A bit. The knife-in-the-back wound is starting to scab,” the director said, referring to the incident in which he saw his latest project leaked to the press after he gave out a handful of copies to some actors and agents.
He now claims that he does have second thoughts about producing the movie whose script he'd considered adapting for the stage once it was leaked: “I'm still in the process of writing it, finishing the second draft, and then I intend to do a third draft.”
He let on to believe that he's still keeping his options open and that he's got several things in mind for the future of the project: “Maybe I'll shoot it, maybe I'll publish it, maybe I'll do it on the stage, because I realized it could work really well onstage. Maybe I'll do all three.”