Quentin Tarantino To Star In Joe Dante’s Roger Corman Biopic The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes

Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdanovich, Gale Anne Hurd, Nicolas Roeg, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Joe Dante, James Cameron, Timur Bekmambetov, Ron Howard, John Sayles, Robert Towne, John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Robert Vaughn, John Cassavetes, Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg, Pam Grier, Sylvester Stallone, David Carradine Peter Fonda, William Shatner, etc… any of these names ring any bells?

Roger Corman is one of the most prolific men in the movie business, directing 56 movies and producing an astonishing 404, yep 404 movies. The list above show some of the people that worked for him before they were famous, which means that Corman has one of the best eyes in the business.

Regardless of your personal opinion on Corman’s body of work, some of his movies have become classics, such as The Little Shop of Horrors (Jack Nicholson’s 4^th movie), The Terror (Boris Karloff and Nicholson), Attack of the Crab Monsters, Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven (starring the holy trinity of Karloff, Price and Lorre), The Wild Angels (Peter Fonda), The Trip, Grand Theft Auto (Ron Howard first feature film) and countless others.

Some time ago actor Colin Firth was set to play Corman in Joe Dante’s (who also worked with him) biopic about Corman, called The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes, but then production stopped and the film sort of fell through the cracks, until now and apparently Firth is out and Tarantino is in.

Quentin Tarantino has been tapped to star as Corman in Dante’s biopic, which will be set during the 1960’s and will be about Corman directing the LSD induced The Trip, which starred Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern and Dennis Hopper.

In an interview to The Telegraph, Corman said that “It was very controversial but it was the only American picture invited to the Cannes Film Festival that year.” Corman then added that he will be making a cameo in his own biopic, as “the executive who didn’t want me to make the film.”

What is your favorite Corman film?

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