Quentin Tarantino hints at “Django Unchained” TV miniseries

PanARMENIAN.Net - Quentin Tarantino wants to unleash about 90 minutes of unseen footage from “Django Unchained” onto TV.

The director told an audience at the Cannes Film Festival that he’d like to release a four-hour miniseries of his hit spaghetti Western, Variety reported citing USA Today. The 2012 pic earned him an Oscar for best original screenplay.

“My idea, frankly, is to cut together a four-hour version of ‘Django Unchained,’” he said on Friday. “But I wouldn’t show it like a four-hour movie. I would cut it up into hour chapters. Like a four-part miniseries. And show it on cable television. Show it like an hour at a time, each chapter.”

The exploitation comedy is 2 hours and 45 minutes long, but many scenes, including extra footage of Django’s wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), fell on the cutting room floor.

“People roll their eyes at a four-hour movie,” he said. “But a four-hour miniseries that they like, then they are dying to watch all four parts. That’s how I thought it could work.”

This could very well just be a pipe dream à la “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” — Tarantino’s plan to release an uncut single film combining both versions of “Kill Bill” — but it could also be the first step to setting the plan in motion.

He also has his hands full with a new draft of his Western “The Hateful Eight,” which reportedly starts filming in November.