Director Quentin Tarantino's hat is off to fellow director George Miller, since he was able to create a masterpiece in the film "Mad Max: Fury Road."
Tarantino revealed during an interview with French outlet Première that he was actually one of the skeptics who initially thought that the latest version of "Mad Max" would be a flop.
"I got a print of Mad Max on 35mm and I watched it in my house, and I had it all weekend and I ended up watching it three different times, and I resisted seeing it for a while because I was like, 'Mad Max without Mel Gibson? Forget that!' In a world where Mel Gibson exists, how can you cast Tom Hardy? So, I even wanted to get all defiant about it and #NotMyMax. Then I saw the movie and, 'Okay, it's terrific,' and he's pretty good in it, I have to admit," he said.
Tarantino made that revelation during the promotion of his new movie "The Hateful Eight." The director also discussed his other works while making media rounds.
During an hour long interview with Ben Mankiewicz of What the Flick?, Tarantino opened up about the possibility of making "Kill Bill 3."
"There definitely is a possibility... stop short of saying probability, but there could be! It could be," he said. "For one reason in particular. Well one, me and Uma (Thurman) would have a really good time working together again. And I wanted the character to have... I put that character - not Uma, I put Uma through a lot too - but I put that character of Beatrix Kiddo through a lot. And so I wanted her to have this much time for peace. I wanted her to have some time with her daughter and not have to be in the genre-machine. She could actually enjoy her life for a while."
What Tarantino appreciates most about the movie franchise "Kill Bill" is that it definitely goes out of the box when it comes to creative storytelling.
"But the other thing is I think 'Kill Bill' is pretty much hands down probably my most visionary movie, insofar as I really went beyond the 'Pulp Fiction' stuff to create this world that really doesn't exist," he said.
Before "Kill Bill" came along, Tarantino said a world "where they actually have samurai sword holders on airplanes where the cup holder would be and that's all good and everyone accepts it" is just plain ludicrous.
"That's just how it is!" he exclaimed. "Fourteen year old girls hang out in bubblegum bars and eviscerate men and get away with it. So the thing about it was that is probably my most visionary cinematic contribution. Now since then my work has taken a turn towards literary and it's gotten denser and denser... so it would be nice to go back to a visceral world that's not about the words any more."
