Tarantino is going to be on Iconoclasts on the Sundance Channel tonight (Nov 10) with Fiona Apple. There's already a bit of a clip up on You Tube of the episode.
Robert Freddy Rodriguez talked a bit about Grind House. There's only a couple of paragraphs, and its really nothing we didn't already know.
I wasn't going to post about Michael Madsen talking about Vega Brothers again, but I've gotten a few emails and I see that JoBlo has picked it up. Here's what Madsen said:
"Well, first he [Tarantino] said he would do it, then he said he wasn't going to do it. Then he called me and said, 'You know, I've figured out a way to do it. It can't be a prequel because you and John don't look the same. It wouldn't make sense as a sequel because you're both dead.' And he gave me an idea that would be really outrageous - that John and I would be the twin brothers of Vic and Vincent. We come from Amsterdam to LA to avenge the deaths of our brothers. I think that's pretty interesting. For me, I'd love to do it."
The problem I have with this is that its basically the same thing Madsen said back in 2003 and QT has said contradictory things about the film for ages.
Its getting a bit close to Halloween, but this Kill Bill jacket would be worth wearing pretty much anytime. Thanks to Mark for sending it in.
In an interview with Mickey Rourke, Radar asked him about why he didn't end up in Grind House. His answer doesn't clear much of anything up:
Radar: After turning down Pulp Fiction, why did you pass up the opportunity to work with Tarantino on his latest project, Grindhouse?Rourke: You know what? He hasn't made any comments about it. And until he makes a comment about it, I'm not going to say anything. It just didn't work out. And I hope that's what he has to say. I'm just going to wait.
Seems to me that Mickey is pissed off at Quentin.
An odd video of Tarantino spitting on MTV's Chris Connelly at the 1997 Oscars. QT had him confused with somebody else.
Some confirmation of what most of us already knew or suspected. The Grind House trailer was a mixture of Rodriguez's Planet Terror (referred to as Planet Doom incorrectly in the article) and one of the fake trailers - undoubtedly Machete.
Also from this same article, we get news that both Rodriguez and QT's parts are standard length films of about 90 minutes, so with the fake trailers mixed in the final product should clock in at just over 3 hours.
I'm glad the first trailer that came out had a very 'fun' feel to it. I think that perfectly captures what these old Grind House style movies are about.
Grind House Trailer @: iKlipz & You Tube.
How is it that a newspaper allows somebody to write a story about You Tube who knows nothing about it, or the videos they are watching. Get a load of this:
So yesterday, as part of my training for Next G, I YouTubed for the first time. I found a music video for "Children of the Universe", a trailer for something called "Grind House" (which may or may not be a spoof), and a clip showing-off a cockroach-controlled mobile robot.
Um, how long would it have taken this writer to figure out what Grind House is? 30 seconds. On dial-up.
A Grind House trailer is up at You Tube. Below are some screen caps. Alternate video of much better quality here.
It looks like pretty much all the footage is from Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror portion of the film.
The girls of Grind House - Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan and Marley Shelton - are going to be the hosts of Spike TV's Scream Awards 2006 which airs on October 10th.
John Jarratt was the first person I can remember being unofically case in Grind House. Now it turns out that he never made it into the movie at all.
"My wife Cody was excited. We'd got the passport thing sorted out and we were all ready to set off for the States with our two kids, just waiting for a start date, so it was a real kick in the guts when nothing happened,'' he told Woman's Day. "I'm really bewildered. God knows, Quentin might ring up next week and say he's ready to start, 'Get over here'. And might do it but I might not. I kind of wish he'd left me alone and it had never happened.''
Well, maybe Tarantino nixed him from the film because he's getting interviewed by magazines like Woman's Day.
Q: More western directors like Quentin Tarantino are doing Chinese martial arts films. What is the difference between a martial arts film directed by a Westerner and someone from China?
A: Quentin Tarantino is in love with Asian movies and martial arts movies. He’s a specialist, a genius, he knows a lot of things but even in movies made in the States, the director may be from the States but the choreographer or action director is still Asian. It’s just a different angle to see the same thing.
Just because you look like The Gimp doesn't mean you play like The Gimp.
AskMen.com has a poll running to determine the Top 49 men of 2006, and Quentin Tarantino has made the list of nominees. Go vote him up.
UPDATE: QT finished in 39th place.