Almost a year ago, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino revealed his next project won’t be his tenth and supposedly ‘final’ film but rather a West End stage production.
Turns out this isn’t just a flight of fancy for the filmmaker. The Daily Mail reports that a 2027 debut is being targeted for the project that is said to be an original script described as an old-fashioned British farce.
Sources for the outlet say, “He has written this himself. It is not based on any of his films. It is a farce, in the British, ‘Noises Off’ tradition.”
“Noises Off” is a 1982 farce play by Michael Frayn and has a ‘play within a play’ structure, the story following a group of actors and stagehands as they stage a chaotic production of a sex farce called ‘Nothing On’.
The tabloid’s sources also say: “At the moment, [Tarantino] is looking at all different sizes and sorts of theatres while he considers the staging,” and the hope is to get some major Hollywood names to star.
Tarantino most recently penned the upcoming David Fincher-directed “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” a $200 million budgeted sort-of follow-up to “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” which hits cinemas and Netflix later this year.
