Uma Thurman Teases Tarantino's New Script: It's a 'Southern,' Not a Western

During the press rounds for The Ceremony, Uma Thurman dropped an update of sorts on that Quentin Tarantino Spaghetti Western that was reported last month. According to her, it's actually not going to be a Western, but a "Southern." No word yet about the spaghetti.

According to Thurman:

"I think he has a script ready to start of a new film, 'a Southern.' I think it's really exciting. It's another new story and a fresh piece of material that he is channeling at the moment. So I think Kill Bill lives down the road."

So yes, she doesn't give away many specifics, but she does call the movie a "Southern," which becomes more significant when you look at Tarantino's paper trail of interviews. He actually explained his vision for the genre during this interview with the NY Daily News during the Inglorious Basterds press tour:

"I'd like to do a Western. But rather than set it in Texas, have it in slavery times. With that subject that everybody is afraid to deal with. Let's shine that light on ourselves. You could do a ponderous history lesson of slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad. Or, you could make a movie that would be exciting. Do it as an adventure. A spaghetti Western that takes place during that time. And I would call it 'A Southern.'"

So yes, now that Tarantino has fulfilled your wildest Nazi revenge fantasies, he'll most likely be making sure that slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members get theirs. And according to an interview with the New York Times, these scenarios are even closer to his heart:

Mr. Tarantino, who was born in Tennessee, said his childhood revenge fantasies centered more on the Ku Klux Klan. "But it's all the same," he said. "Once the Basterds get through with Europe, they could go to the South and do it to the Kluxers in the '50s. That's another story you could tell."

All of that said, Inglorious Basterds changed conceptually many times between when Tarantino first mentioned the project and when production began. But according to Deadline, the Weinstein Company could be moving towards production on this new project any time, now that the script is finished. White supremacists, look out.

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