The roadshow version runs for three hours and two minutes, and includes an overture and intermission, after the fashion of big-budget films of the 1960s and early 1970s; the general release is six minutes shorter and contains alternate takes of some scenes.
Tarantino is also known for his choice of music in his films, including soundtracks that often use songs from the 1960s and 70s.
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
In December 2015, Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry. == Early life == Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the only child of Connie McHugh and aspiring actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before his son's birth.
In 1966, Tarantino and his mother returned to Los Angeles. Tarantino's mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after arriving in Los Angeles, and the family moved to Torrance, a city in Los Angeles County's South Bay area.
Leonard considered Jackie Brown to be his favorite of the 26 different screen adaptations of his novels and short stories. In 1998, Tarantino made his major Broadway stage debut as an amoral psycho killer in a revival of the 1966 play Wait Until Dark, which received unfavorable reviews from critics, but his star power ensured a nearly sold-out production for its limited, 16-week Broadway run.
Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch. In 2003, Tarantino delivered Volume 1, a stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of kung fu films and Japanese martial arts; Volume 2 followed in 2004.
Tarantino next directed the exploitation slasher film Death Proof (2007), part of a double feature with Robert Rodriguez released in the tradition of 1970s grindhouse cinema, under the collective title Grindhouse.
He remained there less than a year before returning to California. == Career == === Late 1970s to 1988: Education, first jobs, and early projects === At 14 years old, Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit, based on Hal Needham's 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit starring Burt Reynolds.
A homage to blaxploitation films, it starred Pam Grier, who starred in many of the films of that genre in the 1970s.
It began as a take on 1970s slasher films, but evolved dramatically as the project unfolded.
The roadshow version runs for three hours and two minutes, and includes an overture and intermission, after the fashion of big-budget films of the 1960s and early 1970s; the general release is six minutes shorter and contains alternate takes of some scenes.
Santiago, Eddie Romero and Gerardo de León as personal icons from the 1970s.
After his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973, and received a misdiagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma, Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee.
He remained there less than a year before returning to California. == Career == === Late 1970s to 1988: Education, first jobs, and early projects === At 14 years old, Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit, based on Hal Needham's 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit starring Burt Reynolds.
While at James Best, Tarantino also met Craig Hamann, with whom he would collaborate to produce his first film in 1987. Throughout the 1980s, Tarantino had a number of jobs.
He is also a fan of the 1981 film Blow Out, directed by Brian De Palma, which led to his casting of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and the Basterds are having an 'Apache resistance' – [the] black troops go on an Apache warpath and kill a bunch of white soldiers and white officers on a military base and are just making a warpath to Switzerland." A long-running rumor in the industry is that Tarantino is interested in filming a new version of Bret Easton Ellis's 1985 novel Less Than Zero.
It was left uncompleted, but its screenplay later formed the basis for True Romance. In 1986, Tarantino was employed in his first Hollywood job, working with Roger Avary as production assistants on Dolph Lundgren's exercise video, Maximum Potential.
While at James Best, Tarantino also met Craig Hamann, with whom he would collaborate to produce his first film in 1987. Throughout the 1980s, Tarantino had a number of jobs.
In 1987, Tarantino co-wrote and directed his first film, My Best Friend's Birthday (1987).
Tarantino is also a noted fan of Elaine May's 1987 film Ishtar, despite its reputation as being a notorious box-office flop and one of the worst films ever made. In August 2007, while teaching in a four-hour film course during the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Tarantino cited Filipino directors Cirio H.
He remained there less than a year before returning to California. == Career == === Late 1970s to 1988: Education, first jobs, and early projects === At 14 years old, Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit, based on Hal Needham's 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit starring Burt Reynolds.
The following year, he played an Elvis impersonator in "Sophia's Wedding: Part 1", an episode in the fourth season of The Golden Girls, which was broadcast on November 19, 1988.
His character with most time onscreen was Jimmie Dimmick in Pulp Fiction (1994). === 1990s: Breakthrough === Tarantino received his first paid writing assignment in the early 1990s when Robert Kurtzman hired him to write the script for From Dusk till Dawn. In January 1992, Tarantino's neo-noir crime thriller Reservoir Dogs—which he wrote, directed, and acted in as Mr.
Throughout the 1990s, Tarantino had a number of minor acting roles, including in Eddie Presley (1992), The Coriolis Effect (1994), Sleep With Me (1994), Somebody to Love (1994), All-American Girl (1995), Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995), Desperado (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), and Girl 6 (1996).
In the early 1990s, while fresh from his critical success with Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino came to Constantin Productions with a script for a Silver Surfer film, but was turned away.
In the late 1990s, he was offered to direct a film adaptation of Green Lantern before there was even a script, but Tarantino declined the offer.
He began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992, a crime thriller film which was in part funded by money from the sale of his screenplay True Romance (1993).
His character with most time onscreen was Jimmie Dimmick in Pulp Fiction (1994). === 1990s: Breakthrough === Tarantino received his first paid writing assignment in the early 1990s when Robert Kurtzman hired him to write the script for From Dusk till Dawn. In January 1992, Tarantino's neo-noir crime thriller Reservoir Dogs—which he wrote, directed, and acted in as Mr.
In 2009, he named Kinji Fukasaku's violent action film Battle Royale as his favorite film released since he became a director in 1992.
Harvey Keitel read the script and also contributed to the budget, taking a role as co-producer and also playing a major part in the picture. Tarantino's screenplay True Romance was optioned and the film was eventually released in 1993.
Tarantino also won the Palme d'Or for the film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
The film grossed over $200 million and earned positive reviews. In 1995, Tarantino participated in the anthology film Four Rooms, a collaboration that also included directors Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders, and Alexandre Rockwell.
In 2008, he produced the Larry Bishop-helmed Hell Ride, a revenge biker film. In addition, in 1995, Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures with Miramax to release or re-release several independent and foreign features.
He re-teamed with Rodriguez later in the year with a supporting role in Desperado, while in 1996 From Dusk till Dawn was finally released with Rodriguez directing and Tarantino starring alongside Keitel, George Clooney, and Juliette Lewis.
The film engendered enmity, and the publication of a "tell-all" book titled Killer Instinct by Jane Hamsher—who, with Don Murphy, had an original option on the screenplay and produced the film—led to Tarantino physically assaulting Murphy in the AGO restaurant in West Hollywood, California in October 1997.
By 1997, Miramax had shut down the company due to poor sales.
Leonard considered Jackie Brown to be his favorite of the 26 different screen adaptations of his novels and short stories. In 1998, Tarantino made his major Broadway stage debut as an amoral psycho killer in a revival of the 1966 play Wait Until Dark, which received unfavorable reviews from critics, but his star power ensured a nearly sold-out production for its limited, 16-week Broadway run.
In December 1999, Tarantino was attached to a film adaptation of the Marvel comic Iron Man for New Line Cinema.
In 1999, Quentin Tarantino was also linked to a live-action Iron Man film, as director and writer. Before Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino had considered making The Vega Brothers.
He also starred in Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, a simulation video game that uses pre-generated film clips. === 2000s: Subsequent success === Tarantino had planned to start work on Inglourious Basterds, as it was provisionally titled, but postponed this to write and direct Kill Bill, a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Wuxia (Chinese martial arts), Jidaigeki (Japanese period cinema), Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror.
The first of these productions was in 2001, with the Hong Kong martial arts film Iron Monkey, which made over $14 million in the United States, seven times its budget.
It was based on a character called The Bride and a plot that he and Kill Bill's lead actress Uma Thurman had developed during the making of Pulp Fiction. From 2002 to 2004, Tarantino portrayed villain McKenas Cole in the ABC television series Alias.
In 2002, while in negotiations with Lucy Liu for Kill Bill, the two helped produce the Hungarian sports documentary Freedom's Fury.
His friend Roger Avary adapted The Rules of Attraction, another novel by Ellis, to film in 2002, and since both he and Tarantino like the works by Ellis, Tarantino has been eyeing the possibility of adapting Less Than Zero.
Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch. In 2003, Tarantino delivered Volume 1, a stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of kung fu films and Japanese martial arts; Volume 2 followed in 2004.
Volume 1 was released in late 2003 and Volume 2 was released in 2004.
Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch. In 2003, Tarantino delivered Volume 1, a stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of kung fu films and Japanese martial arts; Volume 2 followed in 2004.
Volume 1 was released in late 2003 and Volume 2 was released in 2004.
It was based on a character called The Bride and a plot that he and Kill Bill's lead actress Uma Thurman had developed during the making of Pulp Fiction. From 2002 to 2004, Tarantino portrayed villain McKenas Cole in the ABC television series Alias.
I'd love to be involved". In 2004, Tarantino attended the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where he served as President of the Jury.
In 2004, he brought the Chinese martial arts film Hero to U.S.
In 2005, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Tarantino went on to be credited as "Special Guest Director" in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City, for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro. In May 2005, Tarantino co-wrote and directed "Grave Danger", the fifth season finale of Crime Scene Investigation.
In 2006, another "Quentin Tarantino presents" production, Hostel, opened at number one at the box office with a $20.1 million opening weekend.
He presented 2006's The Protector, and is a producer of the 2007 film Part II.
Tarantino praised Mel Gibson's 2006 film Apocalypto, saying, "I think it's a masterpiece.
Released in theaters on April 6, 2007, Tarantino's contribution to the Grindhouse project was titled Death Proof.
He presented 2006's The Protector, and is a producer of the 2007 film Part II.
Tarantino is also a noted fan of Elaine May's 1987 film Ishtar, despite its reputation as being a notorious box-office flop and one of the worst films ever made. In August 2007, while teaching in a four-hour film course during the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Tarantino cited Filipino directors Cirio H.
Filming began in October 2008.
In 2008, he produced the Larry Bishop-helmed Hell Ride, a revenge biker film. In addition, in 1995, Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures with Miramax to release or re-release several independent and foreign features.
Box-office sales were low but the film garnered mostly positive reviews. Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds, released in 2009, is the story of a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
The film opened on August 21, 2009, to very positive reviews and reached the spot at the box office worldwide.
In 2009, he named Kinji Fukasaku's violent action film Battle Royale as his favorite film released since he became a director in 1992.
For the film, Tarantino received his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. === 2010s: Established auteur === In 2011, production began on Django Unchained, a film about the revenge of a former slave in the U.S.
Ellis confirmed in a 2010 interview that Tarantino had been "trying to get Fox to let him remake it".
In 2020, Tarantino named David Fincher's film The Social Network his favorite movie of the 2010s.
For the film, Tarantino received his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. === 2010s: Established auteur === In 2011, production began on Django Unchained, a film about the revenge of a former slave in the U.S.
In 2011, he was recognized at the 16th Critics' Choice Awards with the inaugural Music+Film Award. On the biopic genre, Tarantino has said that he has "no respect" for biopics, saying that they "are just big excuses for actors to win Oscars.
The film was released on December 25, 2012.
In a 2012 interview for the website We Got This Covered, Tarantino said that a third Kill Bill film would "probably not" happen. He also said that he would not be directing a new James Bond film, saying that he was only interested in directing Casino Royale at one point.
Sometime in that same year he was asked about the Kill Bill films, he has stated that he was a huge fan of Simon Pegg, and sought to adapt the Len Deighton novels into a film starring Pegg, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine, and Anthony Hopkins. In a late 2012 interview with the online magazine The Root, Tarantino clarified his remarks and described his next film as being the final entry in a "Django-Inglourious Basterds" trilogy called Killer Crow.
In 2012, when asked whether Less Than Zero would be remade, Ellis once again confirmed that Tarantino "has shown interest" in adapting the story.
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre accused him of being insensitive to the event.
I'm not a monkey." In November 2013, Tarantino said he was working on a new film and that it would be another Western.
I don't write their dialogue, I get them talking to each other." In 2013, a survey of seven academics was carried out to discover which filmmakers had been referenced the most in essays and dissertations on film that had been marked in the previous five years.
On January 12, 2014, it was revealed that the film would be titled The Hateful Eight.
Production of the Western would most likely have begun in the summer of 2014, but after the script for the film leaked in January 2014, Tarantino considered dropping the movie and publishing it as a novel instead.
He stated that he had given the script to a few trusted colleagues, including Bruce Dern, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen. On April 19, 2014, Tarantino directed a live reading of the leaked script at the United Artists Theater in the Ace Hotel Los Angeles.
In October 2014, Jennifer Jason Leigh was in talks to play the female lead in the film.
At the San Diego Comic-Con in 2014, Tarantino revealed he is contemplating a possible science-fiction film.
In November 2014, Tarantino said he would retire from films after directing his tenth film. In November 2017, Tarantino and J.
In December 2015, Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry. == Early life == Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the only child of Connie McHugh and aspiring actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before his son's birth.
Leigh, Channing Tatum, and Demián Bichir joined the cast in November. The Hateful Eight was released on December 25, 2015, as a roadshow presentation in 70 mm film format theaters, before being released in digital theaters on December 30, 2015.
The film has received mostly positive reviews from critics, with a score of 74% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. On July 11, 2017, it was reported that Tarantino's next project would be a film about the Manson Family murders.
In November 2014, Tarantino said he would retire from films after directing his tenth film. In November 2017, Tarantino and J.
In February 2018, it was announced that the film's title will be Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and that Leonardo DiCaprio would play Rick Dalton, a fictional star of television Westerns, with Brad Pitt as Dalton's longtime stunt double Cliff Booth.
Filming took place in the summer of 2018.
The film first officially premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it was in competition for the Palme d'Or.
Sony Pictures distributed the film, which was theatrically released on July 26, 2019. === As producer === In recent years, Tarantino has used his Hollywood power to give smaller and foreign films more attention than they might have received otherwise.
Tarantino recalled in 2020 that the pay he received from that part helped finance Reservoir Dogs; he estimated he initially was paid about $600, but since the episode was frequently rerun because it was on a "best of..." lineup, he received about $3,000 in residuals over three years. Tarantino cameos in the majority of his films.
In 2020, Tarantino named David Fincher's film The Social Network his favorite movie of the 2010s.
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