Quentin Tarantino Wants To Turn Elmore Leonard's 'Forty Lashes Less One' Into A TV Miniseries

Among the many The Lost, Unmade & Possible Future Films Of Quentin Tarantino that we detailed a couple of years back, one is an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's "Forty Lashes Less One." The director is already clearly a big fan of the writer, bringing Leonard's "Rum Punch" (aka "Jackie Brown") to the big screen. And Tarantino has long talked about tackling 'Lashes,' and it's been more than just a passing fancy. In 2007, he revealed that he had completed twenty pages of script and “still might do it sometime;” however, two years later, he informed Charlie Rose that he will never direct another adaptation. However, it would seem Tarantino has had a change of heart.

Chatting recently with Premiere magazine, the director reveals he still has the rights to the book, and that he now envisions it as a possible four- or six-hour miniseries on television. Certainly, the material lends itself to Tarantino's current fixation...