“I’m very, very depressed,” Tarantino told Deadline. “I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn’t mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it’s gotten out today.
“I don’t know how these fucking agents work, but I’m not making this next. I’m going to publish it, and that’s it for now. I give it out to six people, and if I can’t trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it. I’ll publish it. I’m done. I’ll move on to the next thing. I’ve got 10 more where that came from.”
(He's got astronauts… getting revenge. He's got pawn shop owners… getting revenge. He's got furniture liquidators… getting revenge. Etc.)
In all seriousness, it's a total bummer that this will inevitably prolong the time 'till Tarantino's next film. The guy is firing on all cylinders, and for all the shit he gets on abusing the revenge genre—guilty!—he's still one of the most creative and fascinating filmmakers ever. We also could have seen 77-year-old Bruce Dern acting as a cowboy, and he's not exactly getting any younger.
Tarantino did tell Deadline he has another script he's working on, so the delay won't be too agonizing. “The [original] idea was, I was going to write two scripts,” he said. “I wasn’t going to shoot the Western until next winter, and I have been full of piss and vinegar about the other one. So now I’ll do that one.”
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