Besides his retirement,Quentin Tarantinoalso seems to be planning an aggressive expansion of his theater-owning business. The filmmaker, who owns the New Beverly theater in Los Angeles,announced onDax Shepard’sArmchair Expertpodcast that he’s now bought the iconic Vista Theater in LA as well.
Tarantino has a history with the almost century-old Vista. It was used as a location in 1993’sTrue Romance, which he wrote for directorTony Scott.He said on Shepard’s podcastthat the Vista won’t operate like the New Beverly, which is a reperatory theater. But needless to say, Tarantino’s unwritten restraining order on digital projection will be in full effect.
“And I’ll announce one thing here that people don’t know yet,” he said. “I bought the Vista on Hollywood and Sunset. We’re probably going to open it up around Christmastime. And again, only film. But it won’t be a revival house. We’ll show new movies that come out where they give us a film print. We’ll show new stuff. It’s not going to be like the New Beverly. The New Beverly has its own vibe. The Vista is like a crown jewel kind of thing. So it will be like the best prints. We’ll show older films, but they’ll be older films that, like, you can hold a four-night engagement.”
Tarantino is currently on a publicity tour for his first book, a novelization of his 2019 film,Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. StarringLeonardo DiCaprioandBrad Pittas a has-been actor and his trusty stunt double, respectively, the film was set against the backdrop of ‘60s LA.Margot Robbiestarred as the slain actressSharon Tate.
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Tarantino has maintainedthat he has just one more film in him, but hasn’t revealed what it’ll be.OnThe Joe Rogan Experiencepodcastrecently, he said that it would be “exciting” to watchUma Thurmanstar opposite her real-life daughterMaya Hawkein a thirdKill Billfilm. “I think it’s just revisiting the characters twenty years later and just imagining the Bride and her daughter, BB, having 20 years of peace, and then that peace is shattered,” he said.
Tarantino repeated in an appearanceon CBS Sunday Morningrecently that he doesn’t “have a clue” about what his 10th film could be, but if he “had to guess,” it would take the form of an “epilogue.” He said, “I would think,Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodis sort of the epic, at the end of the career. If I had to guess, I would think the 10th film would be more epilogue-y… You’ve told the big story, and it’s the little thing at the end.”
