Quentin Tarantino weighs in on doing a TV show: "I do have an idea for a series, but it wouldn’t be quite that epic a thing"

Variety

During a BAFTA: A Life in Pictures conversation, Tarantino said his films Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Inglourious Basterds could've been TV series. “I could easily have written a five-hour version of Hollywood and done it as a five-hour miniseries," Tarantino said, according to Variety. “I definitely had that much handwritten material – and we shot almost enough to do at least a four-hour version.” Tarantino adds that Inglourious Basterds was originally envisioned as a six-hour miniseries. But French director Luc Besson talked him out of it, telling him: "You are one of the few people that makes movies that makes me want to leave the house to go see the movies and now you are telling me I have to wait five years before I get to do it again.” As for television, Tarantino said that “the way people are doing series now, it’s an idea that’s been in my head since the ’90s…and especially something that would all be written by me and all directed by me.” He added: “I don’t know if I really want to spend nine months doing something like that, though. But I do have an idea for a series, but it wouldn’t be quite that epic a thing.”