What In Your Mind SHOULD Be Tarantino's Last Movie?

[Mojochi]

We're closing in on someday having him settle on his last project & it's had me considering the overarching breadth of his catalog thus far. The entirety of his work has been either period pieces or retro flicks that lament the 60's & 70's era of film (Which he came up in). Even his westerns or WW2 movies hearken back to The Wild Bunch or The Dirty Dozen era of those genres from the 60s.

He's often worked with the talent from those eras, David Carradine, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, Robert Forrester, Pam Grier, & even Travolta. He even regales everyone publicly about having intended to work with Burt Reynolds on the latest

It occurs to me that there's at least one pitstop in that milieu which he hasn't yet touched on, that was rather popular and unique to that era, & could in fact still be relevant in a modern setting, the Truck Driver movie. The Convoy, Smokey & The Bandit, CB radio Breaker, Breaker period of American film that could provide an interesting backdrop for some story to be told. It seems right up his alley & in his wheelhouse, hardy har har

IMHO, he could very adeptly round out his catalog with something like that as his canvas

 

[Tim Walker]

Yes, quite an interesting idea!

 

[Jayson1]

He should do a epic 4 hour movie about a Rolling Stones style rock band as he explores the beginning of their careers in the 50's and 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's and then have Rich Rodriquez make a fake biography made in the present day that focuses on this band after one of them has died. Each hour would basically be one decade. He could then even break it down into a tv show sort of like he did for the Hateful Eight on Netflix.

 

[Saul]

Star Trek obviously. What a glorious way to finish a directing career, reveal his inner Trek and to hell with what film critics and the rest of society expect a film maker to do.

 

[Relayer1]

Pulp Fiction.

 

[publiusr]

He should stick with what he does best—maybe an adaptation of this:

https://www.boswellbooks.com/book/9780806541792

Gangsters vs Nazis….what’s not to like?
The Tommy Gun vs the MP40.

A very loose adaptation.

Topical too:

“Honey? Why were you at that Bund thing?”
“Cause my brother got his jaw broken by your fellow mobsters! I don’t feel safe!”

He can’t just shoot her—but she’s breaking his heart with all that…so there is a conflict the protagonist can’t fix with violence. His love interest can get disgusted the more she hears. This could easily be his best film if he brings the right people. A Black and White Noir film that reflects how issues never change.


There is another alternative….something he has never tried—a disaster movie.

Now hear me out. He could talk about the danger of deregulation from the perspective of an old, retired veteran arguing with a politician.

Now, in a lot of films—you need something horrific part-way through…with a good bang at the end, right?

Most disasters aren’t like that.

But one was…and back in 1947 too:
The Grandcamp Disaster

A freighter filled with ammonium nitrate caught on fire in the port of Texas City. Grandcamp itself was moored right next to the Monsanto styrene plant…just inland? Oil storage tank farms/refineries..warehouses filled with chemicals…a few slips down the dock…a similarly laden ship with an apt name…High Flyer.

Some way, somehow—Michael Bay never heard of this event—to this day the worst industrial accident in Americas history. Two ship explosions like what we saw in Beirut recently.

Now Tarantino clearly doesn’t mind mucking about with history.

He has the perfect set-up: Gangsters, Nazis…longshoremen in war-time.

And maybe a chance to do a remake of one of my favorite films:

WHITE HEAT

 

[Jayson1]

I do know Tarantino considers his last movie as his final epic I think he called it. So one should consider his final movie as his epilogue to his career. I can see him going full circle someway. Maybe a focus on the Vic and Vince Vega or another Vega brother or sister or maybe the dad in the 70's or something like that.

 

[Set Harth]

Pulp Fiction.

daaamn

 

[Owain Taggart]

I think he should take a page from Weird Al and do a satire-based larger-than-life Biopic.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Star Trek obviously.

"Yesterday's Kelvin" for the win!

 

[Magic Maik]

I think a mix between Dave Chappelle's classic "Half Baked" and a Mr. Bean movie would be good.

"Baked Bean".

Instead of Rowan Atkinson you could have Sean Bean in the lead role.

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[Starkers]

I'd like him to do a full on horror film (not necessarily all blood and gore because for me his strength has always been in creating tension-for example the Brad Pitt Spahn Ranch scene is insane). I realise Death Proof could technically be considered a horror film but something with more supernatural overtones would be interesting, plus while I love the first half of DP where Stuntman Mike is unsettling and dangerous as hell, the second half where he's a drunken idiot is less interesting.