Which Other Movies Should Tarantino Novelize?
Last year, Quentin Tarantino switched hats from acclaimed filmmaker to acclaimed novelist with his debut novel (based on his latest movie). Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel topped the New York Times Best Seller fiction list and earned Tarantino a GQ Writer of the Year award. Tarantino singlehandedly brought back a dying literary genre – movie novelizations – with an immersive expansion of the Once Upon a Time universe full of new details about the now-iconic characters, a radically restructured narrative, and an abundance of tidbits from cinema history.
During the book’s promotional tour, Tarantino expressed interest in novelizing some of his other movies. Throughout his 30-year directorial career, Tarantino has become notorious for teasing projects in interviews that ultimately never materialize (Killer Crow, Double V Vega, Star Trek, a handful of Kill Bill spin-offs), so promises like this should be taken with a grain of salt. But the projects that Tarantino mentions in passing don’t always remain unrealized. He’d been touting a World War II movie for years before he got Inglourious Basterds off the ground. So, there’s a chance that more Tarantino novelizations could hit the shelves of bookstores (and the servers of Amazon) in the near future.
Tarantino's Self-Confessed Worst Movie Is Actually Pretty Good
If Tarantino is planning to novelize more of his movies, some would be better choices than others. The character-driven, day-in-the-life quality of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s storytelling made it an ideal candidate to turn into a novel. But not all of Tarantino’s films are as tailor-made for the novel format. The movies that revolve around plot and character, like Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight, would
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