He’s taken us deep into criminal underworlds, went back to World War II and, most recently, to the plantations of the deep South. Now for a potential future project Quentin Tarantino might be heading to the future. While the big news out of last night’s Comic-Con panel for his Django Unchained/Zorro comic-book was that The Hateful Eight is back on and set to shoot early next year, the director also let slip a film that would see him jumping to a different genre.
When asked if he’d ever make a science-fiction film, he told the crowd,
“There actually is an idea. It’s a little flower right now. It’s a little bean sprout, but those bean sprouts tend to turn into beanstalks. This would be the first time I wouldn’t say, ‘No, not really.’ This is the first time I’d say, ‘Maybe.” It wouldn’t be a spaceship-y type thing — traveling through space, going to other planets — it would be more of an Earth-bound sci-fi thing, but sci-fi nonetheless.”