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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Quentin Tarantino - 07/28/21

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Brian talks to Quentin Tarantino. That’s right. QUENTIN is on The Moment. Extra - read Brian's Grantland article here https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/me-qt-whats-behind-tarantino-ditching-his-leaked-hateful-eight-script/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, so uh, someone sent me there the day, uh, there's no way Quentin really wrote that.

0:07.6

Why don't he farm that, so much he farmed it out, so when I was like, look, I read the fucking thing.

0:13.2

Quentin Tarantino wrote this book. So just, would you, just for anyone who thinks that there's

0:19.8

a possibility that you, you wrote it, it seemed to me out of a total sense of joy and fun, right?

0:27.8

Yeah, well, I totally wrote, who would think I wouldn't write it, right? Because people think in

0:33.3

the old day, you know, these kind of pulp novels that made so many. So yeah, it's like, um,

0:39.5

yeah, well, I mean, it's true that like Spielberg didn't write the Close Encounters.

0:42.9

You even said that when you were interviewed by a fantasy and, right, and George Lucas did not write,

0:48.1

you know, the Star Wars one. I think this is why. Yeah, yeah. But Sam Fuller obviously did write the

0:54.8

big red one novelization. But, you know, those guys aren't known as writers. I mean, you know,

0:59.6

it's like, I mean, why would I even monkey around with this unless I was going to write it? Yeah,

1:05.2

no, and, and, and, and, um, three lines. I'm too much of an ego, I'm too much of an ego maniac,

1:10.4

not to write it. Well, yeah, because who are you going to trust so many people? Yeah,

1:15.0

imitate you badly. Who are you going to fucking trust to write something under your own name?

1:20.4

Actually, there was a moment actually where, um, after Django, I thought I still think this, um,

1:27.6

that, um, Django would make a really good hero in a series of like,

1:33.3

pulp paperback novels. Right. And so we got in touch with a book publisher, and then they got

1:39.4

in touch with some writers, and they sent me back little storylines that I could have commissioned.

1:44.6

You could have had someone do it. Yeah, I could have had somebody do it. And then like,

1:48.1

and even then in the case of Django, I was like reading a, yeah, he was saying, and that's okay,

1:54.3

but they don't under, they don't, they don't know enough about this. They don't understand

1:57.8

enough about that. And ultimately, I just didn't feel okay, licensing the character out to be done,

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