Famed director Quentin Tarantino has shared that he has no interest in making a Marvel or DC movie as he is "not a hired hand."
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times about his new book Cinema Speculation, the director behind such films as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and many more, made it clear that he is not interested in jumping into the world of superheroes.
“You have to be a hired hand to do those things,” Tarantino says. “I’m not a hired hand. I’m not looking for a job.”
He then went on to discuss the possible change in the tides in regards to superhero movies and how they may, one day in the far future, have a similar fate as musicals in the '60s.
According to Tarantino, just as "60s anti-establishment auteurs rejoiced when studio musical adaptations fell out of favor, today’s filmmakers 'can’t wait for the day they can say that about superhero movies.'"
Tarantino continued to admit "the writing's not quite on the wall yet" for superhero movies and that we aren't quite yet where we were in 1969 when many were saying, ‘Oh, my God, we just put a bunch of money into things that nobody gives a damn about anymore.’”
Superhero movies, especially from Marvel and DC, are obviously still dominating the box office, with Black Adam earning over $260 million globally and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever set to make another billion if it can reach the heights of the original.
While superheroes may not be his thing, Tarantino almost went into outer space with a Star Trek movie, but that project appears to have been shelved for now.
Tarantino's last film was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and his new book, Cinema Speculation, is described as follows;
"At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT's and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever."
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