Quentin goes Mandarin
Quentin Tarantino's next project is a logical progression in his seemingly perpetual celluloid homage-to-the-seventies. The director announced to Total Film Magazine that his next feature will be a kung-fu film. This won't surprise any of the director's cult following, but one fact might just make their eyebrows jump before they smirk: the film will be entirely in Mandarin.
"I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill [ Images ], so much so that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin," said Tarantino. "If you're not up to watching it with subtitles, I really want to do a full-on dubbed version," he added.
"Maybe shooting two Kill Bill movies has spoiled me."
Tarantino claims the second version will be an 'old-school' dub, which means it'll be entirely and deliberately out of sync with on-screen dialogue, in additional homage to the low-budget 'chopsocky' genre of which he has been a long-standing admirer.
Shooting in China allowed Tarantino to wrap up the two Kill Bill films for $60 million, a fraction of what they would have cost if shot entirely in the US. The films together earned about $330 million worldwide. The project, as yet unnamed, is expected to be a quick production of a low-budget film and should be several times more profitable.
Earlier this year, Tarantino had announced that his next project was to be Inglorious Bastards, a homage to the 1967 classic The Dirty Dozen, but now concedes that has "ballooned" into a much larger production, like Kill Bill before it, and he would like to do "something much smaller" first.
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