Convinced that filmmakers lose their mojo as they get older, Quentin Tarantino has chained himself to the promise that he will quit directing films after his 10th feature. He is already trying to find loopholes in this self-imposed limit, having written two books and a stage play. Tarantino is now preparing for the release of his latest project, on which he serves purely as a writer. Longtime fans will know that before he broke out with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Tarantino announced his arrival on the scene as the writer of True Romance and Natural Born Killers.
Tarantino has yet to win an Academy Award for Best Director, although he has won two screenwriting Oscars for Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained. He reportedly received $20 million for writing the upcoming movie, which serves as a sequel to his most recent directorial effort, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Coen Brothers Movie Would You Thrive In? Lebowski · O Brother · Fargo · No Country
Nobody writes people like the Coen brothers. The decent ones. The talkers. The ones who stopped trying years ago. And the ones who can already see how bad this is going to get. Four films, four completely different ways of handling trouble. Eight questions decide which one you would actually walk out of.
🎳Lebowski(1998)
🎸O Brother(2000)
❄️Fargo(1996)
🪙No Country(2007)
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A bag of money lands in your lap. What happens next? Every Coen film starts roughly here. It never goes smoothly.
02
Somebody is being completely unreasonable with you. How does it go? Coen dialogue is mostly people failing to understand each other.
03
What is your actual relationship with work? Everyone in these films is either working far too hard or not at all.
04
Long drive, bad weather, nobody else on the road. How are you? There is always a drive in these films. It is never a good drive.
05
You are offered a shortcut that is not quite legal. This is the moment where the Coens find out who you really are.
06
The plan has fallen apart completely. What is your move? In a Coen film the plan always falls apart. That is the genre.
07
Which of these sounds most like something you would say? Nobody writes a line quite like the Coens. Which one is yours?
08
How does your film end? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your movie.
The Verdict Is In Your Coen Film Is…
Four films, four completely different ways of handling money, trouble
and other people. This is the one you would survive, why it suits you, and what it would cost you to
be there.
The Big Lebowski · 1998
The Big Lebowski
You have quietly arranged your life so that very little can get
to you, and a surprising number of people find that infuriating. You would be completely at
home here.
The Dude is the only person in the film with no ambition, and the only one who comes out
the other side undamaged. That is not an accident.
You do not chase things. You let situations arrive and you deal with them at your own
pace, which is a genuine skill however lazy it looks.
This is a full crime plot happening around a man who mostly wants his rug back, and that
is exactly the energy you would bring to it.
Everything goes wrong. You abide. The film ends.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? · 2000
O Brother
You talk your way through life and it works far more often than
it should. Give you a bad situation and an audience and you will find a way out of both at
once.
Everett never has a plan that survives contact with reality. He has something better,
which is the ability to keep talking until a new one turns up.
You are the optimist in the group, the one who makes a ridiculous idea sound reasonable
at two in the morning.
This is the warmest film the Coens have made. It is a chase, a comedy and a musical at
once, and nobody in it is quite beyond saving.
You would end up famous entirely by accident, and act like you planned it all along.
Fargo · 1996
Fargo
You would survive Fargo because you are the only kind of person
who does: patient, decent, and completely unimpressed by anybody trying to be clever.
Marge Gunderson solves the whole case by being polite, thorough and unhurried while
everybody around her panics. That is the entire argument of the film.
You do the boring parts of the job, which is precisely why you would notice the thing
everyone else walked straight past.
Fargo is about ordinary greed causing enormous damage, and about one person who simply
refuses to be corrupted by any of it.
You would go home at the end of it, have dinner, and sleep perfectly well.
No Country for Old Men · 2007
No Country
You do not expect the world to be fair and you stopped being
surprised about it a long time ago. That clear-eyed quality is exactly what this film asks
for.
No Country is the Coens at their coldest: a film where being smart, fast and careful
might still not be anywhere near enough.
You plan for the worst, you keep your own counsel, and some part of you is already
working out the exit.
Llewelyn Moss is competent, prepared and resourceful, and the film is honest about
whether any of that is ever sufficient.
You would see it coming. Whether that helps is the one question the film refuses to
answer.
Here’s When You Can Watch the ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Sequel
The trio is uniting on the upcoming film The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, a $200 million crime-comedy that will get a two-week exclusive run in IMAX theaters before debuting on Netflix. The streamer has embraced theatrical exhibition in recent months, after swearing it wouldn’t for years. Netflix recently gave La Bola Negra and The Mosquito Coast limited runs in theaters, and for the first time, reported box-office figures. The streamer is partnering with Sony to release Greta Gerwig‘s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew in theaters worldwide next year.
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth is set for a November 25 release in theaters, followed by a December 23 release on Netflix. Pitt is coming off the sleeper hit survival thriller Heart of the Beast, which grossed nearly $200 million worldwide against a reported budget of $82 million last month, and has cemented itself as a PVOD hit with a “Verified Hot” 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Fincher, on the other hand, has been working exclusively with Netflix for the past decade, but his contract with the streamer is reportedly up. Tarantino is putting together the West End play The Popinjay Cavalier, starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
