Quentin Tarantino won’t be Marvel’s ‘hired hand’: ‘I’m not looking for a job’

Don’t look for Quentin Tarantino to direct a Marvel movie anytime soon.

in a new interview with los angeles timesThe director of critically acclaimed films like ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ says he doesn’t want to be a ‘hire’ at Disney-owned Marvel Studios. claims.

Tarantino said of Marvel’s superhero movies when promoting the new movie, “You have to be a hired person to do that.” cinema speculation.

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“I am not a hired hand,” he added. “I’m not looking for a job.”

Interestingly, there was a time when Tarantino was actively trying to bring Marvel characters to the screen.

In 2020, Tarantino starred in Amy Schumer’s podcast “3 Girls, 1 Keith,” once making a movie based on Marvel’s Luke Cage, with a view to casting Laurence Fishburne in the lead role. It was revealed that

Tarantino said, “There was time before all this Marvel shit came out.

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“After Reservoir Dogs, before Pulp Fiction, I thought I was going to do Luke Cage. Growing up, I was a huge comic book collector. [comic books] ‘Luke Cage: Hero for Hire,’ later ‘Luke Cage: Power Man,’ and ‘Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu,'” he continued.

“I thought Larry Fishburne was the perfect guy to play Luke Cage. But all my friends said, ‘It must be Wesley Snipes.’ See, I like Wesley Snipes, but Larry Fishburne is practically Marlon Brando. That’s right Snipes And I’m going It doesn’t matter so much Damn you, you ruined the whole damn thing!

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