Well it seems that we won’t be
having another western from writer/director Quentin Tarantino after all. Apparently
the script that the director had sent out to different actors has been leaked,
and he is so upset about the whole thing that he scrapped the production plans
and is considering publishing the story first and then perhaps in five years’
time making the film.
Here is Tarantino’s reaction to
the leaked script incident that apparently was perpetrated by an agent of one
of actors he had sent the script to.
“I’m very, very depressed. I
finished a script, a first draft, and I didn’t mean to shoot it until next
winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it’s gotten
out today … I gave it to one of the producers on Django Unchained, Reggie
Hudlin, and he let an agent come to his house and read it. That’s a betrayal,
but not crippling because the agent didn’t end up with the script. There is an
ugly maliciousness to the rest of it. I gave it to three actors: Michael
Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth. The one I know didn’t do this is Tim Roth. One of
the others let their agent read it and that agent has now passed it on to everyone
in Hollywood. I don’t know how these fucking agents work, but I’m not making
this next. I’m going to publish it, and that’s it for now. I give it out to six
people and if I can’t trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make
it. I’ll publish it. I’m done. I’ll move on to the next thing. I’ve got ten
more where that came from.”
Almost like Sherlock Holmes,
Tarantino is zero in on the people involved in such a breach of confidence.
“I hadn’t given it to Christoph,
I haven’t given it to Sam Jackson. I gave it to three motherfucking actors. We
met in a place and I put it in their hands. Reggie Hudlin’s agent never had a
copy. It’s got to be either the agents of Dern or Madsen. Please name names.”
[emphasis mine]
A copy of the script should be available
online for those of you that like these types of mega spoilers. Here is what
the director had to say.
“I am not talking out of both
sides of my mouth, because I do like the fact that everyone eventually posts
it, gets it and reviews it on the net. Frankly, I wouldn’t want it any other
way. I like the fact that people like my shit, and that they go out of their
way to find it and read it. But I gave it to six motherfucking people! Starting
this week, I’ll be setting meetings with publishers.”
Well it’s a damn shame.
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