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, 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.
