Netflix got Quentin Tarantino to turn a movie into a miniseries — should we expect more?

Quentin Tarantino has brought an “extended version” of his controversial roadshow western The Hateful Eight to Netflix, but not the way you’d think. It’s a miniseries composed of four 50-minute episodes, and reactions have been confused, to say the least. Why would a cohesive movie, one which already had six “chapters,” be broken up into four?

Now, Tarantino himself has spoken — and he tells Slashfilm that it’s the experiment Netflix wanted him to produce:

Tarantino says the “extended version” has around 25 minutes of new content, and the scenes don’t play out quite the same way. In particular, the episodic format let him show a key sequence from the perspective of different characters (I won’t spoil it here).

We know Netflix has been experimenting with new formats like interactive, choose-your-own-adventure stories like Black Mirror: Bandersnatchand You vs. Wild, in addition to producing its own TV shows with the high-end production values that were previously rare outside film. Now, Tarantino has raised the intriguing possibility that movies don’t just have to be movies — and that Netflix is interested in finding out.

There’s more in the full interview, including that Tarantino has already written a script for a possible Star Trek movie, and has a director’s cut of Django Unchained ready to go.

Source: www.theverge.com