Unlucky number 10: Tarantino still plans to quit after directing two more films

Quentin Tarantino just reminded us in a recent interview with Variety that he plans on only making ten movies in totality, which means he is just two movies short of retirement. This is what he had to say:[caption id="attachment_2566838" align="alignleft" width="380"] Quentin Tarantino. AFP[/caption]“I’m planning on stopping at 10. So it’ll be two more. Even if at 75, if I have this other story to tell, it would still kind of work because that would make those 10. They would be there and that would be that.”In a January 2016 press conference for The Hateful Eight (2016), Tarantino discussed his four potential ideas that he might turn into films.One of the possible ideas Tarantino has always talked about is a sequel to Inglorious Basterds (2009) titled 'Killer Crow'. His original plan for Inglorious Basterds included intricate plot-lines with more characters, but he paused to work on Kill Bill (2003) and it's sequel. Making Killer Crow'with the same world war II story-line as Inglorious Basterds might be high up on his priority list.Tarantino, who is a fan of Elmore Leonard, has also said he would like to adapt the crime novelist's Forty Lashes Less One into a TV mini series, instead of a movie. Tarantino has already adapted Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch into the film Jackie Brown (1997). Here’s the synopsis for the book Forty Lashes Less One, from Amazon.in:

The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it’s worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they’ll stay behind bars until they’re dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there’s hope. And for two hard and hated inmates — first enemies, then allies by necessity — it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest … on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona’s five most dangerous men.

Already sounds like a Tarantino movie, doesn't it? Tarantino has already acquired the rights to the book, so it might be possible that an adaptation is underway.While Tarantino thinks Death Proof (2007) is one of the worst movies he has ever made, he is open to the idea of making an out and out horror film 'with an element of dread looming in the background'.He has also dropped hints about wanting to do gangster period movies, something on the lines of Bonnie and Clyde.What will be the iconic director's next pick? While his last film The Hateful Eight didn't do well at the box-office, the director's genre of action movies has become a genre of it's own.The director plans to settle down and write about film history after retiring from directing films.