Tarantino is not a fan of what Stone did with his words. Before he was an auteur and author, Quentin Tarantino was just a guy trying to break into Hollywood. He passed a few scripts around to get people's attention. One of them was Natural Born Killers. It was the story of a couple that was young, in love, and on a murdering spree. The script was sold to Warner Bros., who eventually brought Oliver Stone on to direct. But the movie Stone made is still one Tarantino has never seen all the way through. Tarantino has been doing the rounds and was on "The Moment" podcast with writer Brian Koppelman. He recounted this to Koppelman who agreed that he also was not a fan of Stone's treatment of Tarantino's screenplay. Take a listen here. When asked if he had seen the whole thing, Tarantino said, “No, not at all. Not that I’ve seen it all from beginning to end." Koppelman said he “walked out” because he was “so insulted that this genius, I love his movies, Oliver Stone, so fundamentally misread why your script that I had read two years before mattered so much.” Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 26 August, 2021