Quentin Tarantino To Retire From Filmmaking After Making His 10th Film
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Quentin Tarantino To Retire From Filmmaking After Making His 10th Film
So this is a few days old and has been rumored for a while but the man himself actually confirmed that he's going to be done with directing after his next two films. On the one hand ten will be a nice round number to stop at and if his last two films are great he'll have a really strong filmography all around. On the other hand though I hate to think of not seeing more films from him.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...wo-more-943862
Quentin Tarantino Confirms Retirement Rumors: Two More Films and Out
Speaking at the Adobe Max creativity conference in San Diego, the director said he's stopping at 10 features: "Drop the mic. Boom. Tell everybody, 'Match that shit.'"
Quentin Tarantino has doubled-down on his pledge never to make another film past his tenth — meaning his next two films will be his last.
"Drop the mic. Boom. Tell everybody, 'Match that shit,'" he said Thursday to much applause at Adobe Max, a creativity conference held by the software giant inside the San Diego Convention Center.
But before Tarantino gets to work on his next full-length scripted film — which he teased earlier this year as potentially being a "Bonnie and Clyde-esque" tale set in 1930s Australian — the 53-year-old director told the crowd inside Hall H that he is focused at the moment on a historical nonfiction project.
For four years, Tarantino has been been immersed in studying the year 1970, one he considers the most pivotal in the history of cinema. How the project eventually takes shape is not yet entirely clear. "It could be a book, a documentary, a five-part podcast," he says.
Ann Lewnes, CMO of Adobe, conducted Thursday's interview. She asked Tarantino, dressed in a blue denim shirt over a black T-shirt and jeans, how he personally defines success.
"Hopefully, the way I define success when I finish my career is that I'm considered one of the greatest filmmakers that ever lived. And going further, a great artist, not just filmmaker," he said. The audience laughed and applauded.
Tarantino also shared some of the secrets of his creative process: Each new script involves a tour through his personal record collection, stored in a room designed to evoke a vintage record store.
"So much of [the movie's language] revolves around a sound or a song," he said. "Before I've started, I'm seriously thinking about the music. I'm listening to a track and picturing everyone at the Cannes Palais just loving it."
After back-to-back hits for his longtime studio home, The Weinstein Company — 2008's Inglourious Basterds ($120 million domestic gross) and 2012's Django Unchained ($163 million, a career high) — last year's Hateful Eight stumbled domestically.
The nearly three-hour whodunnit, set almost entirely inside an Old West general store, disappointed at the box office, bringing in just $54 million in the U.S. It fared much better overseas, adding $101 million to its global take.
Other keynote speakers at Adobe Max included fashion designer and Project Runway judge Zac Posen, who showed off the illuminated gown he designed for Claire Danes that caused a sensation at the Met Ball.
And war photographer Lynsey Addario delivered an emotional talk based on her memoir, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War. The book was the subject of a fierce Hollywood bidding war. Warner Bros. won the rights, with Jennifer Lawrence attached to star in a package that includes director Steven Spielberg.
Speaking at the Adobe Max creativity conference in San Diego, the director said he's stopping at 10 features: "Drop the mic. Boom. Tell everybody, 'Match that shit.'"
Quentin Tarantino has doubled-down on his pledge never to make another film past his tenth — meaning his next two films will be his last.
"Drop the mic. Boom. Tell everybody, 'Match that shit,'" he said Thursday to much applause at Adobe Max, a creativity conference held by the software giant inside the San Diego Convention Center.
But before Tarantino gets to work on his next full-length scripted film — which he teased earlier this year as potentially being a "Bonnie and Clyde-esque" tale set in 1930s Australian — the 53-year-old director told the crowd inside Hall H that he is focused at the moment on a historical nonfiction project.
For four years, Tarantino has been been immersed in studying the year 1970, one he considers the most pivotal in the history of cinema. How the project eventually takes shape is not yet entirely clear. "It could be a book, a documentary, a five-part podcast," he says.
Ann Lewnes, CMO of Adobe, conducted Thursday's interview. She asked Tarantino, dressed in a blue denim shirt over a black T-shirt and jeans, how he personally defines success.
"Hopefully, the way I define success when I finish my career is that I'm considered one of the greatest filmmakers that ever lived. And going further, a great artist, not just filmmaker," he said. The audience laughed and applauded.
Tarantino also shared some of the secrets of his creative process: Each new script involves a tour through his personal record collection, stored in a room designed to evoke a vintage record store.
"So much of [the movie's language] revolves around a sound or a song," he said. "Before I've started, I'm seriously thinking about the music. I'm listening to a track and picturing everyone at the Cannes Palais just loving it."
After back-to-back hits for his longtime studio home, The Weinstein Company — 2008's Inglourious Basterds ($120 million domestic gross) and 2012's Django Unchained ($163 million, a career high) — last year's Hateful Eight stumbled domestically.
The nearly three-hour whodunnit, set almost entirely inside an Old West general store, disappointed at the box office, bringing in just $54 million in the U.S. It fared much better overseas, adding $101 million to its global take.
Other keynote speakers at Adobe Max included fashion designer and Project Runway judge Zac Posen, who showed off the illuminated gown he designed for Claire Danes that caused a sensation at the Met Ball.
And war photographer Lynsey Addario delivered an emotional talk based on her memoir, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War. The book was the subject of a fierce Hollywood bidding war. Warner Bros. won the rights, with Jennifer Lawrence attached to star in a package that includes director Steven Spielberg.
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Okay. Looking forward to whatever he does. It'll probably be another 10 years till he's finished. And I'm up for seeing what he does after that (theater, literature). Wouldn't mind seeing him produce to give others a leg-up.
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Not buying it. Never did. Will he take a long break? Yes.
Didn't realize he is 53. I thought he was a bit younger than that.
Didn't realize he is 53. I thought he was a bit younger than that.
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I buy it. Even 10 years ago he was talking about how directors will nosedive their catalog before they give up directing. I can see Tarantino being like Altman or Lumet - making great (and I mean that) films right up till the end. But the man can do what he wants. I'll pay attention to what he does till the day I die.
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Really hope we get one more modern day crime film from him. Liked Django and Basterds but want him to go back to what started it all.
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Django Unchained and Hateful Eight both fell flat for me.
Don't know if it's because I generally dislike westerns, or if it's because he can't put together a good movie without Sally Menke.
But if that's the best he can crank out, retiring is probably for the best.
Don't know if it's because I generally dislike westerns, or if it's because he can't put together a good movie without Sally Menke.
But if that's the best he can crank out, retiring is probably for the best.
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Not a fan of DU, but IMO H8 is the best film he's done since Jackie Brown. Looking forward to whatever he does next.
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I love westerns, and his previous films, but agree that the last couple/few have been dipping in quality. I'd be surprised if I love his next films.
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1. He's threatened to "quit after ten" like this for years.
2. I think we did a count last time he said this and he's already had like 11 directors credits or something like that, so his math is a little fuzzy.
3. I'm curious about the 1970 project. He considers that the most important year in cinema. I wonder why? It's never stood out as an especially great year.
2. I think we did a count last time he said this and he's already had like 11 directors credits or something like that, so his math is a little fuzzy.
3. I'm curious about the 1970 project. He considers that the most important year in cinema. I wonder why? It's never stood out as an especially great year.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_in_film
I have not gone through the list but knowing QT - it may not necessarily mean due to that year's release schedule.
I have not gone through the list but knowing QT - it may not necessarily mean due to that year's release schedule.
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It's called the Soderbergh Effect. He'll be back in a few years. Rather, he'll threaten to come back for years, then he will.
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Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill (as one)
Death Proof
Inglourious Basterds
Django Unchained
The Hateful Eight
He doesn't count shorts, unreleased self financed projects, or movies he only directed a segment of (Four Rooms, Sin City), which I think is fair.
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I can see him "retiring" for a while, only to come back maybe ten years after to deliver one last masterpiece. Seems like something he'd do.
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I believe him as he's been saying that he would stop at ten for a while now. Like someone else mentioned who knows how long it'll actually be for him to release two more films anyways since he takes his time.
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If he says he is retiring from directing, I would think he would still write scripts and collaborate with certain directors
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So, if he releases The Whole Bloody Affair after #10 would that not count? And I'm talking about several hundred theaters.