In an article I wrote up on Saturday discussing the seemingly inevitable death of film as digital filmmaking is sweeping the landscape I made brief reference to Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film, which was apparently starting to come together. However, at that time there was no word one what the film was, who would be in it or when we should expect to see it. Today that’s changed.
News first surfaced when Italian actor Franco Nero told MoviePlayer (via The Playlist) his next project would be a spaghetti western called The Angel, the Bad and the Wise, a tribute to Sergio Leone that he said Quentin Tarantino would have some involvement in along with the likes of Keith Carradine and Treat Williams. “It’s a movie that contains humor, lots of action, but also a great plot,” Nero added.
From there we move to Ain’t It Cool News where Jeremy Smith tells us not only will Tarantino be involved in the film, but he is in fact directing it and it will star his Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz with plans to shoot the film in Italy and Spain later this year. The AICN report says this is the first they’ve heard of Nero, Carradine and Williams’s involvement, but the details of the report seem to make sense. Smith, however, says the title as reported above “isn’t even close.”
Hopefully we’ll get some confirmation on this story soon, or at least a sorting of the details. For now it would seem Smith at AICN has the inside track on the story so hopefully he’ll have some more to deliver soon as his report insinuates he’s obviously holding back some information. For now I’ll add this movie to the database under Untitled Quentin Tarantino Spaghetti Western and we’ll go from there. Knowing Tarantino’s love for spaghetti westerns this makes absolute sense and I would think with the success of Inglourious Basterds and the recent success of True Grit a studio would likely jump all over this if it wasn’t too far of left field.
