One of the most celebrated cinema magpies is on the verge of announcing his flick. He’s handing in a script to the Weinsteins in the next couple of months and it’ll be a spaghetti western homage, apparently. The director’s love of the genre is well known.

Italian icon, Franco Nero, the man who played Django, says it’s called The Angel, The Bad and the Wise. Which, to be honest, is a bloody awful title if it’s true. There’s a counter report from Aint It Cool News that the title is hogwash, but Tarantino is definitely shooting a western for his next film.

Italian website Movieplayer.com featured a comment by Nero who explained:

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“It’s a movie that contains humor, lots of action, but also a great plot. We have already been signed by a dozen people who will be part of project. Among the film-makers involved include Quentin Tarantino, Keith Carradine, Treat Williams, 15 people (all Americans) who want to do this movie and so we are trying to produce it outside of Italy.”
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There’s also word out on the street Christoph Waltz is involved but what extent is yet unknown. As the Guardian reports, back in 2007, QT talked about translating the iconic western into what he called “a southern”.

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“To do movies that deal with America’s horrible past, with slavery and stuff, but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies. I want to do them like they’re genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it’s ashamed of it, and other countries don’t really deal with because they don’t feel they have the right to.”
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Source: The Guardian.