After much discussion, the Weinstein Co’s mouthwateringly interesting project, Grind is finally moving towards production. The film, a project of modest budgets, aims to be a quickly put-together ‘grindhouse’ project, with Robert Sin City Rodriguez directing a 60-minute zombie pic, and Quentin Tarantino (hallelujah!) making an hourlong slasher film.
Now, Variety informs us that Rodriguez is close to beginning work on the project, and that the films have been titled. RR’s is called Planet Terror and Q’s is Death Proof. Featuring as independent B-films, they will be mercilessly spliced together with the aid of fictional advertisements. Here lies the the fun bit:The two filmmakers are hammering out concepts for some of the faux trailers and ads that will run between the two pics as an intermission. Tarantino is keen this time on shooting a fake trailer for a sexploitation movie titled “Cowgirls in Sweden.” Other possibilities include a blaxploitation pic and a kung-fu movie.
Awesomeness is in the making. Yay!
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Raja- dig this!
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Davenchit - you’re right, it could be way too self-indulgent to actually
even be funny anymore. Well, there’s always hope, right? Loosemuse,
I’m a massive QT fan, but Four Rooms didn’t have me gushing either.
Four Rooms sucks. Even Tarantino’s section isn’t really that good, in spite of
the heavy-duty cast.
wonder if u have seen ‘Four Rooms’ (collaboration project…) I can draw
some projections from that … But any short film from Rob Rod should be
quite worth it… and yeah ofcourse mr. Q - the god whom we keep
praying everyday that would deliver something asawesomy like pulp
fiction and keep forgivign every other movie that comes out in memory of
pulp…
That said, swedish cowgirls sounds kind of hot…in a cool, even frigid kind of
way.
Hah. I’m in two minds about this. While it sounds like a wickedly exciting
ohmygodohmygodimsobuzzed kind of project, it might just be the case that the
self-referential pop-culture thing could get too obssessively, self-consciously
obscure. Which reminds me; I have to go and re-read Don Quixote.