Quentin Tarantino thinks of a literary conversion

While waiting for the tenth and last feature film by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino the writer is thinking about his future. The director of Pulp Fiction , who has always affirmed his desire to stop his career after his tenth feature film, plans to turn to literature, as he explains in the program Pure Cinema Podcast .

The 57-year-old filmmaker talks about the crazy project of adapting his film Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood, in a novel. “The idea only came to me recently , he says, but now I think about it a lot. "

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In his last interviews, the filmmaker, who became the father of a little boy in February, explains that he wants to focus on writing. " I have a feeling that it's time to give way to the third act of my life in order to lean a little more towards literature, which is good as a new father and new husband, " said this Elmore Leonard fan in an interview with Popcorn in January.

A novel project ... on cinema

What better way to embark on this new career than this dive in Los Angeles in the late 1960s? The director, who considers himself a "novelist who makes films", has repeatedly explained that this very personal work, some passages of which were written as chapters of a novel, was the culmination of his career.

"If you think that all the films tell a story and that each film is like a railway wagon linked to the others, this would be the highlight of the event. And I imagined that the 10th would be a bit more of an epilogue, " he explained during the promotion of the film.

While waiting for the filmmaker's tenth and final feature film, Tarantino is scratching the paper. Last September, he confided in a cross interview with Martin Scorsese in the magazine of the Directors Guild of America floor on a novel project. His pitch? A veteran of World War II disillusioned by Hollywood cinema regains faith by discovering Fellini and Kurosawa ...

Let the movie buffs be reassured, Tarantino's faith in Hollywood is still intact. Since December, he has taken up the pen on the New Beverly Cinema website (“Tarantino's reviews” section) where he writes reviews of films from the 1960s and 1970s. , Hands in pockets (one of the first films of Sylvester Stallone), but also many films of kung fu, a genre much appreciated by the director, and westerns little known to the general public.