Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects
The following is a list of unproduced Quentin Tarantino projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, American film director Quentin Tarantino has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these projects, are officially cancelled and scrapped or fell in development hell.
1980s
My Best Friend's Birthday
Long before his directorial debut with Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino met with Craig Hamann and was introduced to his 30-40 page script, My Best Friend's Birthday. Tarantino helped expanded the script up to 80 pages and agreed to direct the film. On a $5,000 budget, a 16 mm camera, the film was shot in the span of four years. The completed run time came out to 70 minutes; but due to a lab fire during editing, the film was nearly destroyed. The remaining 36 minutes was saved, roughly edited together, and displayed at several film festivals.
1990s
Green Lantern film
In the '90s, Tarantino was offered a chance to write and direct a film adaptation of Green Lantern. He declined the offer, despite being a huge comic book fan.[1]
Iron Man film
Tarantino was linked at one point to an Iron Man film for New Line Cinema. Nothing came out of this.[2]
Luke Cage film
After the release of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino contemplated on developing a film based on Luke Cage. Despite being a huge fan of the character, he decided to put his focus onto Pulp Fiction. [3]
Silver Suffer film
Fresh from the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino went to Constantin Films with a completed script to a proposed Silver Surfer film. Ultimately, Constantin Films passed on his script.
Tarantino's Natural Born Killers
Tarantino sold his Natural Born Killers script to producers Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy for $10,000 after his previous attempt to direct the film himself on a half a million dollar budget. Hamsher and Murphy sold his script to Warner Bros. The script caught the attention of director Oliver Stone, who drastically reworked the script with David Veloz and associate producer Richard Rutowski, while retaining Tarantino's dialogue. Due to the heavy rewrites from Stone, Veloz, and Rutowski, Writer's Guild of America ruled out for Tarantino to recieve story credit.
Tarantino gave the film a negative response to the film. Despite wishing the best for Stone during the film's production, he responded to the film saying, "I hated that fucking movie. If you like my stuff, don't watch that movie."
2000s
The Vega Brothers / Double V Vega
2010s
Killer Crows
References
- ^ Ditzian, Eric (2009-12-02). "Exclusive: Quentin Tarantino Was Offered 'Green Lantern'". MTV Splash Page. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
- ^ Vice, Jeff (October 3, 1999). "Comic books poised for film incarnations". Deseret Morning News.
- ^ "Quentin Tarantino Considered Making a Luke Cage Movie". Yahoo! Entertainment. September 29, 2016. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
External links
The Lost, Unmade, and Possible Future Films of Quentin Tarantino by IndieWire