Title: Tarantino to remake FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL?
William S. Wilson - January 17, 2008 04:10 PM (GMT)
Liz Smith is reporting this in Variety and that his first casting choices are Kim Kardashian, Eva Mendes, and Britney Spears. Please Movie Gods, let this just be some whacked out rumor! Hopefully so (and she damages her cred by misspelling his name once):
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| WILL IT shock any of you to learn that Quentin Tarentino is hot to remake the 1966 Russ Meyer campy soft-porn classic, "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (Three tough busty chicks travel through the desert, stirring up trouble and testosterone along the way.) Tarantino wants his version to be even raunchier, natch. His first casting choices are Kim Kardashian, Eva Mendes and -- oh, please! -- Britney Spears. What, no Lindsay Lohan? LL loves 1960's cult-trash. She wants to re-make Ann-Margret's "Kitten With A Whip." Lindsay could become Quentin's new muse. Look what he did for Uma Thurman. |
Marty McKee - January 17, 2008 05:31 PM (GMT)
I'll pay you $10,000 if that happens.
JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - January 17, 2008 05:46 PM (GMT)
I'm not buying that Smith had any substantial scoop to report at all.
Lars Erik Holmquist - January 17, 2008 06:20 PM (GMT)
I thought he already did, except he had to spoil it with Kurt Russell and lots of yakking about cars?
Michael Blanton - January 17, 2008 06:51 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Lars Erik Holmquist @ Jan 17 2008, 12:20 PM) |
| I thought he already did, except he had to spoil it with Kurt Russell and lots of yakking about cars? |
:lol:
JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - January 17, 2008 09:57 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Lars Erik Holmquist @ Jan 17 2008, 01:20 PM) |
| I thought he already did, except he had to spoil it with Kurt Russell and lots of yakking about cars? |
That's actually where DEATH PROOF falls apart for me - it would have a lot more impact if the second set of girls was revealed as being not only a match for Stuntman Mike in driving/stunt prowess, but as ruthless as the FASTER girls to boot.
It's there, but Tarantino wants to celebrate them at the same time, and pulls back from really delivering on the implications.
Lars Erik Holmquist - January 17, 2008 10:48 PM (GMT)
Plus, those stunt girl sissies never had a chance with the REAL she-devils!
JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - January 17, 2008 11:11 PM (GMT)
Von Tittfield? Really?!
August Ragone - January 18, 2008 01:06 AM (GMT)
"...it would have a lot more impact if the second set of girls was revealed as being not only a match for Stuntman Mike in driving/stunt prowess, but as ruthless as the FASTER girls to boot."
You do remember that they go after him, shoot him, punch the crap out of him, and kill him, right? I'd say that's ruthless. But, they're not evil, like the girls of FASTER PUSSYCAT.
You do remember that they go after him, shoot him, punch the crap out of him, and kill him, right? I'd say that's ruthless. But, they're not evil, like the girls of FASTER PUSSYCAT.
JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - January 18, 2008 01:25 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (August Ragone @ Jan 17 2008, 08:06 PM) |
| But, they're not evil, like the girls of FASTER PUSSYCAT. |
That's more or less where I'm going with this. If not evil, then at least viewed with less ingratiation and more ambivalence. I don't think the girls ever get to a point where the audience disconnects from them, or is at all tempted to switch sympathies to Mike.
I think it could have taken things further.
Jeremy Slate - January 18, 2008 04:00 PM (GMT)
I'm in love with Kim Kardashian and Eva Mendes, so this would be f-n' awesome.
Craig Blamer - January 18, 2008 05:42 PM (GMT)
I'm not buying it... there's no way they could get anyone on earth to insure Spears at this point.
Mike Mariano - January 24, 2008 09:21 PM (GMT)
In his later years, Meyer talked about remaking FASTER PUSSYCAT himself, but nothing ever came of it. In an interview, Meyer was asked if he planned to modernize or update the film for the remake, and he responded:
"Same locations, same plot, same script--bigger boobs."
"Same locations, same plot, same script--bigger boobs."