Quentin Tarantino wants to write novels and plays after his retirement

Are you ready to see The Hateful Eight on stage?

Clarisse Loughrey
Friday 11 December 2015 17:28 GMT
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Tarantino is already famous for the high levels of bloody violence in his films
Tarantino is already famous for the high levels of bloody violence in his films

Quentin Tarantino is considering a move to writing novels, as well as writing and directing plays, once he reaches his self-imposed retirement.

The director's been long touting this idea that he'll retire from filmmaking once he reaches 10 movies; for reference, The Hateful Eight will suitably bring us up to number 8. It's something he once more reinforced during the Hollywood Reporter's Director Roundtable, "That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point."

That's not long to go; so Tarantino confessed he'd naturally started thinking about his creative future beyond filmmaking, "what I want to do basically is I want to write novels and I want to write theatre and I want to direct theatre."


Specifically, he'd be keen to stage a theatrical production of The Hateful Eight, "because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that." Indeed, the film started its life as a stage reading, put into production after the leak of an early script; furthermore, the film's central premise of placing eight strangers trapped in Minnie's Haberdashery during a blizzard seems naturally built for the confines of live theatre. 

He also acknowledged the theatrical elements to his debut Reservoir Dogs, and that it "could be put onstage and has been put onstage many times." Would this be another project he'd be keen to take under his own wing? 

He was also asked whether he had any regrets about his career so far, responding "The only thing I actually really regret about my behavior when I'm making movies, especially when it's a long shoot, when it's gone on for a long time, you just get sick of it. You've had it. And that day I feel sorry for myself, and I'm a grumpy a-hole. And I really regret that."

The Hateful Eight will be released in the UK 8 January.

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