Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is set to debut a British farce play on the West End, eyeing a fall premiere, TheWrap has learned.
According to the Daily Mail, which first reported the news, “The stranger-than-fiction truth is that Tarantino has written an original, old-fashioned British farce, in the door-slamming, trouser-dropping, mistaken-identity style of Brian Rix or Ray Cooney.”
“The play is written,” Tarantino previously said on the “Church of Tarantino” podcast back in August. “It is absolutely the next thing I’m going to do. We’ll start the ball rolling on it in January … It’s probably going to take up a year and a half to two years of my life.”
The report added that Tarantino is currently in talks with actors. A representative for Tarantino did not respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
Tarantino previously faced criticism from fans after the director slammed Paul Dano’s performance in “There Will Be Blood” as “weak sauce.”
The “Kill Bill” filmmaker shared his unfiltered opinion about Dano’s work in the 2007 period drama, which earned Dano a BAFTA nomination, during a recent appearance on “The Bret Easton Ellis” podcast. Tarantino was revealing his top 20 films of the 21st century, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” was ranked fifth.
However, Tarantino made it clear he didn’t love everything about the critically acclaimed film, calling out Dano’s performance in particular. “‘There Will Be Blood’ would stand a good chance at being #1 or #2 if it didn’t have a big, giant flaw in it … and the flaw is Paul Dano,” he noted. “Obviously, it’s supposed to be a two-hander, but it’s also drastically obvious that it’s not a two-hander. [Dano] is weak sauce, man. He is the weak sister. Austin Butler would have been wonderful in that role. He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. The weakest f–king actor in SAG.”
