Quentin Tarantino Is Developing an ‘Old Fashioned British Farce’ Play as His Next Project

Quentin Tarantino is trading in his dialogue full of “mf’ers” in exchange for some Cockney charm. In lieu of Tarantino finally finding a 10th feature film to direct yet again, the filmmaker is instead staying true to his word and turning his attention to the British theater.

Details of what that project is emerged today, first reported in The Daily Mail and then confirmed by Variety. Tarantino has written and is now developing an “old-fashioned British farce” stage play that he hopes to stage in London’s West End in 2027, possibly in the fall of that year.

Though it’s in the vein of slapstick, physical comedy productions such as “Noises Off,” or as The Daily Mail said, in the vein of work by Brian Rix or Ray Cooney, such as Cooney’s play “Run for Your Wife,” Tarantino’s is an original story, and there’s the possibility that he could recruit some Hollywood stars to go along on the ride with him. The Daily Mail described it as a true “door-slamming, trouser-dropping, mistaken identity” sort of farce.

Talk about a left-field departure for the director of “Pulp Fiction,” “Kill Bill,” and “Inglourious Basterds.” Tarantino first scrapped what could’ve been his 10th feature, a project called “The Movie Critic,” and he then also handed off directing duties on another script he had written, “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” which is an extension of Brad Pitt’s character from “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.” He also recently returned to acting for a role in the indie film “Only What We Carry,” and he revisited a lost scene from “Kill Bill” by instead directing it inside “Fortnite.” That’s a lot to delay what he has vowed will be his final movie.

“The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” though, was taken up by David Fincher to direct for Netflix, which teased the film during a Super Bowl trailer last month and will be released later this year. The teaser did not reveal a title, so word’s out whether “Adventures of Cliff Booth” is the actual one. Meanwhile, Tarantino’s already hinted-at move to the theater could be well-suited to his skills, given the stagelike parameters of his 2015 movie, “The Hateful Eight,” which he had originally planned as a stage play before it became a theatrically released feature film.