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The Director's Chair => Quentin Tarantino => Topic started by: mutinyco on November 01, 2004, 09:01:47 PM

Title: mandarin
Post by: mutinyco on November 01, 2004, 09:01:47 PM
I guess I'm the only person around here who reads BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3972737.stm

Tarantino set for Mandarin film

Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino has announced his next project will be a kung-fu film shot in Mandarin.

He will also shoot a second version of the film, dubbed with a deliberately out-of-synch English soundtrack.

"I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill, so much so that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin," Tarantino told Total Film.

"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."

At a press conference in April this year, the director had intimated that his next project would be the World War II film Inglorious Bastards.

But he told Total Film magazine's editor, Mark Dinning, that his homage to cult 1967 action film The Dirty Dozen would have to wait a little longer.

"Everyone still thinks I'm doing Inglorious Bastards next, but before I do that I want to do something much smaller," said Tarantino, whose films have included Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.

The director did not offer any further details as to release date, plot details or cast on the untitled project.

"He just wants to make a genuine martial arts film with all the ideas he has spilling over from shooting Kill Bill," said Mr Dinning.

"His new kung-fu project has Tarantino written all over it - a mix of the barmy and the brilliant that film fans will be excited about seeing."
Title: mandarin
Post by: El Duderino on November 01, 2004, 09:32:52 PM
come on quentin...what ever happened to inglorious bastards? too much martial arts. goddamn it
Title: mandarin
Post by: Alethia on November 01, 2004, 09:35:24 PM
thats shitty
Title: mandarin
Post by: SiliasRuby on November 01, 2004, 09:47:38 PM
Quote from: El Duderinocome on quentin...what ever happened to inglorious bastards? too much martial arts. goddamn it
Damn strait....
Title: mandarin
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on November 02, 2004, 05:55:41 AM
If he's doing this, it better be even better than Kill Bill, or else... or else what? exactly!
Title: Re: mandarin
Post by: Pubrick on November 02, 2004, 06:07:30 AM
Quote from: Boringtino"Maybe shooting two Kill Bill movies has spoiled me."
no, droves of jerks praising them and buying the dvds has spoiled him.

those ppl are getting what they asked for..
Title: mandarin
Post by: Pedro on November 02, 2004, 08:09:44 AM
he better drop out of this.  soon.
Title: mandarin
Post by: RegularKarate on November 02, 2004, 02:05:27 PM
He will... he'll get a different dealer and his mood will change... all of a sudden, he'll have decided to start shooting a stop motion animation fim about a chicken.
Title: mandarin
Post by: metroshane on November 02, 2004, 02:23:53 PM
Maybe he'll come up with some character developments.  That I'd like to see.
Title: mandarin
Post by: El Duderino on November 02, 2004, 06:06:03 PM
Quote from: metroshaneMaybe he'll come up with some character developments.  That I'd like to see.

pipe dreams
Title: Re: mandarin
Post by: brockly on November 02, 2004, 11:11:21 PM
Quote from: Pubrick
Quote from: Boringtino"Maybe shooting two Kill Bill movies has spoiled me."
no, droves of jerks praising them and buying the dvds has spoiled him.

those ppl are getting what they asked for..

i hate to say this, but yeah, i agree with p. too much praise has gotten to him, and now he's hesitant about moving onto something new. we saw the same thing happen to the wachowskis. although, the kill bill films are actually good and worthy of high praise, while matrix was the ultimate "for assholes" movie.

however, i should know better then to bitch about a tarantino rumour/quote. i mean, this was on imdb just yesterday (after the mandarin film news)....

QuoteBrosnan May Return As Bond Again -- In Tarantino Film

Pierce Brosnan might yet again star as James Bond after all. The Associated Press reported Monday that he has been in discussions with Quentin Tarantino about starring in a film version of Casino Royale, the only Bond novel that is not controlled by MGM and the Brocolli estate. (It had previously been filmed as a Bond spoof.) "We have discussed things, Quentin and I, but I don't know if it's going to be that particular project," Brosnan told the A.P. He also endorsed fellow Irishman Colin Farrell to succeed him as Bond in the MGM franchise.

perhaps this forum should be locked until tarantino officially goes into pre-production with something
Title: Re: mandarin
Post by: MacGuffin on November 02, 2004, 11:51:42 PM
Quote from: brocklyalthough, the kill bill films are actually good and worthy of high praise, while matrix was the ultimate "for assholes" movie.

MacGuffin - The biggest asshole on xixax since he'll take The Matrix films over Kill Bill any day.
Title: mandarin
Post by: Sleuth on November 02, 2004, 11:58:56 PM
I like all of them!
Title: Re: mandarin
Post by: brockly on November 03, 2004, 12:48:06 AM
Quote from: MacGuffinMacGuffin - The biggest asshole on xixax since he'll take The Matrix films over Kill Bill any day.

:( sorry mac. i know your a cool guy. and there are alot of cool guys i know who like the matrix. but its just that nearly every asshole i know happens to love that film. i dont know why.

anyway, your a revolutions fan, right. which means you dont just dig the first two for their trippy slow motion action sequences rather then their story and characters, as most assholes tend to.
Title: mandarin
Post by: MacGuffin on November 03, 2004, 12:56:52 AM
I just don't believe that both Kill Bills are "worthy of high praise" (and certainly not so when compared to QT's other films). Not saying that The Matrix films are either. I believe both series of movies are for 'assholes'.
Title: mandarin
Post by: The Silver Bullet on November 04, 2004, 08:45:58 AM
Tarantino has about as much new and interesting stuff to say as this post does.
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Post by: pete on November 08, 2004, 01:15:39 AM
it's like "house of flying daggers" after Hero or Ang Lee preparing to shoot another kungfu movie - non-martial arts directors love the idea of getting a world-renowned choreographer and DP to do all the dirty work for him, to just list these vague ideas regarding sensibilities and aesthetics and to garner critical acclaim and to think that they were the ones who made it all happen 'cause they shouted "cut" when their action figures' gears unwind at the end of the shot.
I'd like to see them shoot a fight scene the way jackie chan or lau karleung or any of their choreographer monkeys do.
Title: mandarin
Post by: MacGuffin on March 25, 2005, 02:48:13 AM
Monkeypeaches.com reports that the chinese model Li Xin is set to have a role in Tarantino's upcoming Mandarin Kung Fu project, and Donnie Yen was also mentioned.

China born ex-supermodel just said in Beijing that Quentin Tarantino had asked her to the title role in his untitled project about Chinese Kung-Fu. She said Tarantino approached her after watched French movie Double Zéro, in which she played a sexy secret agent.

Li said Tarantino gave her a draft of the script. Martial-art star Donnie Yen also said there was a good chance that he would work with Tarantino but he did not say more.

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tarantino.info%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fli_xin.jpg&hash=3ccbede4acce3772023ee5d2773a273d4934e37b)
Title: THE SUNNY ROAD TO SALINA
Post by: finlayr on March 30, 2005, 06:47:46 PM
I've been unable to find the Sunny Road to Saline from KILL BILL on the internet.  if someone has it on limewire or kazaa or something, please go on the internet and i'll download it!!!  I'm starting to drool...
Title: Re: THE SUNNY ROAD TO SALINA
Post by: Pubrick on March 31, 2005, 09:19:40 AM
Quote from: finlayrplease go on the internet and i'll download it!!!
yeah, put down the print version of this site and get online!
Title: mandarin
Post by: Gabe on April 28, 2005, 12:50:24 AM
Mandarin is the widest spoken language in the world
864 million
Title: mandarin
Post by: Pubrick on April 28, 2005, 01:15:51 AM
Quote from: BorjabahMandarin is the widest spoken language in the world
864 million
yeah but it's only in like eight countries, 7 of which are meaningless after China's population. so it's not very "wide".  

as opposed to Spanish (30 countries) and English (52).
Title: mandarin
Post by: matt35mm on April 28, 2005, 01:23:30 AM
Quote from: BorjabahMandarin is the widest spoken language in the world
864 million
I'm one of 'em.  It's fairly "wide;" it's spoken all over the world, whether or not it's the official language.  True, English is probably the most widely spoken language in the world, but we all know what Borjabah meant anyway.
Title: mandarin
Post by: Pubrick on April 28, 2005, 01:25:39 AM
Quote from: matt35mmbut we all know what Borjabah meant anyway.
i don't think borjabah meant anything.
Title: mandarin
Post by: pete on May 07, 2005, 11:03:03 PM
Quote from: MacGuffin
(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tarantino.info%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fli_xin.jpg&hash=3ccbede4acce3772023ee5d2773a273d4934e37b)

she certainly has that uma thurman-eyes-just-a-little-too-far-apart look going.  I bet QT would love bruce lee's elvis painting.
Title: mandarin
Post by: 03 on May 08, 2005, 01:00:52 AM
Quote from: petebruce lee's elvis painting.
out of context this is a surreal sentence.