Quentin Tarantino used the American Film Market to announce his planned retirement after several more films, as well as his 70mm intentions.
When foreign buyers gathered to this year’s American Film Market, they likely thought they’d be listening to Quentin Tarantino explaining how distribution for next year’s The Hateful Eight will make them a lot of money, not how it marked the last rounded corner in the final stretch of his career. But it could only be Tarantino, who attended the event with Harvey Weinstein and Samuel L. Jackson, who decided it’s the perfect venue to announce his (distantly) impending retirement.
Explaining that he thinks film directing is a young man’s game, among his many thoughts, Tarantino said that he would retire after his tenth film.
“I’ve got two more after this,” Tarantino said, according to BBC. “I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography…It’s not etched in stone, but that is the plan.”
It is a bold move considering Tarantino is only 51-years-old and still has seeming decades left in him. Of course, this could be premature since he essentially states that he will do three more films and then retire, even though filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen are turning out gems like The Wolf of Wall Street and Midnight in Paris well past the age of 70. It also indicates that Tarantino counts Kill Bill as only one film.
After his retirement, Tarantino restated his interest in becoming a playwright and novelist.
In the meantime, however, Quentin Tarantino used the forum to push the reason he is making The Hateful Eight a 70mm event like he’s David Lean or William Wyler.
“If we do our jobs right by making this film a 70mm event, we will remind people why this is something you can’t see on television, and how this is an experience you can’t have when you watch movies in your apartment, your man cave, or your iPhone or iPad,” Tarantino said.
He added, “I’m hoping it’s going to stop the momentum of the digital stuff, and that people will hopefully go, ‘Man, that is going to the movies, and that is worth saving, and we need to see more of that.”
For my part, I hope it is for more than just two more times with Tarantino at the helm, as well.
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