At Cannes for a 20th anniversary screening of Pulp Fiction , the filmmaker said he had 90 minutes of unseen footage he’d like to add to make a small screen cut of Django Unchained.
Quentin Tarantino at the Cannes Film Festival
Quentin Tarantino has 90 minutes worth of unseen material from his 2012 Django Unchained, and he'd like to use it to cut a four-hour miniseries version of the movie for television.
The filmmaker told the press of his hopes for the project at the Cannes Film Festival today, where he'd come to host a special 50th anniversary screening of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars as the closing night film. He'll also be walking the red carpet for a 20th anniversary screening of his Palme d'Or-winning Pulp Fiction, with star Uma Thurman and producers Lawrence Bender and Harvey Weinstein.
Tarantino isn't a big fan of reworked special editions of movies, complaining about how the original version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind became unavailable after the special edition was released. Still, for Django, he said he'd like to add the extra footage in and then "cut it up into hour chapters, like a four-part miniseries, show it on the cable television." He noted that while audiences see a four-hour movie as an "endurance test," these days they're much more willing to binge-watch that much TV in a single sitting.
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