He’s already conquered the cinema world, and now Quentin Tarantino has set his sights on TV in 2023.
During a New York promotional event for his much-discussed new book, Cinema Speculation, the filmmaker revealed that he plans to make a TV series next year, as per Variety.
Exact details about the upcoming project were scarce after that, although he did say that the series will run for eight episodes.
It actually won’t be Tarantino’s first foray into TV. Back in 2005, he directed two episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a fact that would make for an excellent pub quiz question.
Tarantino has been majorly focused on cinema since then, although he did flirt with the possibility of working on the TV revival of Justified earlier this year.
Elsewhere at the event, Tarantino also revealed which comic book he would like to adapt for the big screen if he was ever given the choice. He chose Marvel’s Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, but he’s been very explicit with his disdain for Marvel cinema in the past, so don’t expect it to ever come to fruition.
Cinema Speculation is out now, and has been earning rave reviews for its mix of film criticism, personal memoir, and Hollywood history. The collection is organised around key American films from the 1970s, all of which Tarantino first watched as a young cinema fan at the time.
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Tarantino hasn’t been out of the headlines this week. During a recent episode of The Video Archives Podcast, he labelled the current cinema era as tied for “the worst era in Hollywood history.”
“Even though the ‘80s was the time that I probably saw more movies in my life than ever – at least as far as going out to the movies was concerned – I do feel that ‘80s cinema is, along with the ‘50s, the worst era in Hollywood history. Matched only by now, matched only by the current era!” he said (as per NME).
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Check out a clip from Quentin Tarantino’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episodes:
