B.S. Watch Update: Kill the Bill talk. Please.
Back in October you may remember the internet getting its Underoos in a bunch when an Italian reporter asked Quentin Tarantino about his plan to revisit Beatrix Kiddo 10 years after the events of Kill Bill. The notoriously chatty director said it wouldn’t be his next film, but maybe the one after that. Variety even got in on the fun.
Well, we can’t have a season go by without someone asking Tarantino stupid questions about this or that sequel and lucky for us, ever-reliable MTV came to the rescue a couple of days ago. Carrying the flag for the once proud music video outlet, Eric Ditzian asked the director what the sequel would be called since (spoiler alert!) Bill was already killed in volume 2. According to Tarantino “It wouldn’t be Kill Bill, it would be Volume 3 of the story of the Bride.”
Um. No shit.
After stating the obvious, Tarantino then repeated what he’d already told the Italian journo: there’s still no script and it’s still not going to be his next movie, but possibly the one after that. It’s a classic MTV non-story yet it was dutifully reported as news all over the internet: here, here, here, here and probably plenty of other places not in my newsfeed.
All of these guys work hard at keeping their readers informed and all of them dig up honest to god breaking news stories from time to time, but they’re not doing anyone any favors by recycling swill, least of all themselves. It’s bad enough MTV has fashioned a business model out of wasting celebrities’ time with foolish questions, but to have the info repeated infinitely and uncritically is even worse.
Just. Stop it.
[UPDATE: They won't quit, but this isn't even worth the trouble of doing another post]
Filed under: Rumors
Tags: Quentin Tarantino
I’m always interested to know what my favorite directors are working on, but there’s no more boring questions to me than such incessant fanboy questions about sequels and movie editions of TV shows. Even though they are ostensibly questions about future projects, they are inherently backwards-looking. I don’t want more of the same. I want to be surprised with something great and new again. If that happens to every now and then come in a continuation of a story/franchise, fine. But let’s not let these things drag on into perpetuity just because the fans won’t stop yammering to relive the past glory in new form (which they will almost inevitably bitch about as being a disappointment after all the build-up). Bah. I’m with you on this one.
Yeah there are about six reasons shit like this annoys me. First of all, a guy gets a few minutes with one of the more interesting directors working and all he wants to hear about is a sequel? What a waste.
And then I hate how it becomes news. People are just encouraging studios to make more of the same by getting an erection every time there’s a hint of an announcement.
Finally…there’s no new information here. Of course it’s not going to be called Kill Bill 3. That’s foolish. And we already knew it wasn’t going to be his next picture and that he didn’t have a script yet.
Until there’s a finished script I don’t want to hear another thing about it.
And don’t get me started on the Arrested Develoment movie.