Quentin Tarantino. Pic: AFP Source:
AFP
The Daily Telegraph reports
He has long championed his love for Australian film. Now cult director
Quentin Tarantino is eyeing an all-Aussie project to be shot here and starring
only Australians.
Famed
Australian actor John Jarratt let it slip during a chat with Confidential this
week having just wrapped a role in Tarantino's upcoming splatter-fest Django
Unchained starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx.
Jarratt plays a
brutal slave trader in the anticipated Western, having brokered a friendship
with the director a decade ago while Tarantino was Down Under promoting Kill
Bill Vol.1.
"He wants
to make this Australian film and I'll keep kicking him until he does,"
said Jarratt, who said the Oscar-winner had an almost encyclopedic knowledge of
Australian film history."He has literally seen every Australian film ever
made . ... he knows every Australian director.
"If you
want to know anything about Aussie films, you ask him.
"He's told
me he likes tough grittiness ... the kicking and scratching kind of movies we
make that I think helped inspire movies like Reservoir Dogs and Inglourious
Basterds.
"He likes
the way we make movies and likes the way we make low-budget movies that look a
trillion dollars and stand up next to the Bruce Willis movie next door."
Indeed, Tarantino helped finance the documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild,
Untold Story of Ozploitation about low-budget Aussie cinema of the '70s and
'80s.
Jarratt,
meanwhile, is set to reprise one of his best-known Aussie film characters -
psycho serial killer Mick Taylor - with cameras to start rolling on Wolf Creek
2 in January.
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