The popular film director Quentin Tarantino wants to try his luck in a Western television , which would first foray into television after major blockbusters like “Django Unleashed “or” Kill Bill “.
The American filmmaker has acquired the rights to a western-themed novel,” Forty Lashes Less One “, the author Elmore Leonard, and it looks like it will soon begin his teleplay. Recently, Tarantino has confessed in an interview with Premiere magazine that while you want to adapt the novel by Leonard and now “The time has come to do” .
For years, Tarantino tries to start with the adaptation of “Forty Lashes Less One”, after intense rumors in 2010 that began with the project after announcing in 2007 that it had already written twenty pages of the script.
Although the format is often used film, in this case the director has chosen the small screen to tell the story of the Wild West, through a miniseries of four to six hours duration .
Remember that Quentin in 1997 had already adapted a novel by Elmore Leonard, the famous film “Jackie Brown” , based on another novel by this author, “Rum Punch” .
The plot of this novel western Leonard will soon see on television takes place in a prison called Yuma , where conditions are terrible for those living in their cells, especially for prisoners of color. In the case of Raymond Chiricahua Apache San Carlos and former black soldier Harold Jackson , who are accused of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Hatred of the other prisoners and the need they will join forces to try to survive and kill the five most dangerous men in Arizona.
This story could remember the last big blockbuster Tarantino’s “Django Unchained”, or preparing the upcoming film, “The Hateful Eight”, which does not hit theaters until January. In it, the filmmaker will coincide with Samuel L. Jackson , one of its most popular actors and we remember among others by “Pulp Fiction” .
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