DIRECTOR · BORN 1963
Quentin Tarantino
- Born
- 27 March 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Known for
- Pulp Fiction (1994), Django Unchained (2012), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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10 Facts From Quentin Tarantino's Production Stories
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Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay for a dialogue-driven heist film in three and a half weeks and gave it to Lawrence Bender unformatted.
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Quentin Tarantino's screenplay True Romance was optioned, and the resulting film was released in 1993.
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Quentin Tarantino sold a second script, for Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone. Tarantino received story credit and said in an interview that he wished the film well, though he later disowned the finished film.
- #047
Quentin Tarantino did an uncredited rewrite on It's Pat (1994).
- #049
Quentin Tarantino was an uncredited screenwriter on Crimson Tide (1995) and The Rock (1996).
- #053
Quentin Tarantino wrote, directed and acted in the 1994 dark comedy crime film Pulp Fiction, which kept the graphic violence and non-linear storylines of his earlier work.
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Quentin Tarantino's third feature film was Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch. A homage to blaxploitation films, it starred Pam Grier, and Elmore Leonard considered it his favorite of the 26 screen adaptations of his novels and short stories.
- #072
Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed Kill Bill, a highly stylized revenge film drawing on Chinese martial arts films, Japanese period dramas, Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror.
- #074
Kill Bill grew out of a character called The Bride and a plot that Quentin Tarantino developed with lead actress Uma Thurman while Pulp Fiction was being made.
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Kill Bill was first intended as one theatrical release, but its four-hour running time led Quentin Tarantino to split it into two films.
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