Tarantino still kung fu fighting

Rather than making the long-awaited 'Inglorious Bastards' next, Quentin Tarantino has instead decided to return to China for yet more kung fu action

Nov  4 2004

In a clear case of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it,' Quentin Tarantino has surprised the film world by announcing that he’ll stick with the kung fu genre for his next movie. And if that weren’t enough, the untitled project will be shot entirely in Chinese Mandarin.

Tarantino had originally planned to make 'Inglorious Bastards' his oft-delayed 'Dirty Dozen'-style World War II movie next, but following the success of both 'Kill Bill' films, he plans to shoot yet again in China with a predominantly Chinese cast and crew.

'My next movie is gonna be another kung fu that's gonna blow your asses off,' he told Total Film in typically understated style, 'Everyone still thinks I'm doing 'Bastards' next, but before I do that I want to do something much smaller.'

The long-chinned wonder says the film will be shot as a homage to the low-budget chop-socky pics of the 70s, and he even plans to make two versions of the movie, one with English subtitles, the other with deliberately bad dubbing.

'The next movie will be in Mandarin!' he explained, '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.'

Tarantino is currently working on the script, with cameras set to roll sometime late next year. In the meantime he may also be involved in the next James Bond movie. Speaking at the recent Irish Film and TV Awards, Pierce Brosnan revealed that the pair of them have spoken about the possibility of collaborating on a version of 'Casino Royale', the one Fleming/Bond novel not owned by MGM and the Broccoli estate.

Whether that particular fan-boy wet dream will come to fruition remains to be seen, but whatever QT decides to turn his talented hand to next, you can bet it'll be worth the wait.

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