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Issue 83 / 2016
FILM
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TaranTino To Tackle The TheaTre
Quentin Tarantino hinted at the 2016
Golden Globe Awards that his latest
screen production, The Hateful Eight,
could be coming to a stage near you
in the next few years
In an post-awards
interview with The Wrap,
the controversial director
stated how he plans on
adapting the script to
the stage, and in which
direction he intends the
adaptation to go: "I'm just
waiting for this [awards]
season to be over so I can
write it. I gotta put myself
there and write it for this."
Perhaps the Oscar-
winning director now
has his eyes on the Tony
Awards, much like fellow
Oscar-winners and South
Park creators, Trey Parker
and Matt Stone, whose
musical The Book of
Mormon has been an
incredibly huge success,
running non-stop in
London's West End since
2013.
It has also emerged
that boss of Tarantino's
producers The Weinstein
Company, Harvey
Weinstein, originally
wanted the script to be
written for the stage.
However, Tarantino claims
that he "had the 70mm
film and the snow", and
he wanted to created a
masterpiece with them.
Furthermore, he claims
that he enjoys the mystery
aspect of the script, and
that "will really only work
with the movie".
Considering the immense
success of Tarantino's
previous films, as well as
the huge excitement over
The Hateful Eight, a stage
adaptation may well prove
to be a massive global
hit before it even comes
out... that is the popularity
of the veteran director's
works.
