After Django Unchained and the upcoming The Hateful
Eight, Quentin Tarantino's next gig could be yet another western, but for TV.
Speaking to Premiere Magazine, Tarantino revealed that
he is thinking about reviving his adaptation of Elmore Leonard's western, Forty
Lashes Less One, and that it could perfectly lend him back on TV, a format in
which he has some but not a lot of experience with.
It always takes me a while before thinking about the
future. That said, I own the rights to this book [I’ve] wanted to adapt for a
while, and the time may have come for me to tackle [it]. This is Forty Lashes Less One,
[written by] Elmore Leonard…which could be my third western. [I’m] considering
[taking the] project to TV, in the form of a miniseries of four or six hours.
In Leonard's Forty Lashes Less One "the hell
called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it’s worse for those
whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache
Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are
murderers, and they’ll stay behind bars until they’re dead and rotting. But
even in the worst place on Earth, there’s hope. And for two hard and hated inmates
— first enemies, then allies by necessity — it waits at the end of a mad and
violent contest … on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona’s five most
dangerous men."
Source - Premiere
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