Well, we should almost be used to this by now after the on again off again of Inglorious Bastards, but it looks like yet another promised Tarantino project may be sputtering and failing. Grind House may be done for. This time though, it's not his fault.

The film, a collaborative, goretastic horror project from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez has been on The Weinstein Company's schedule almost since Bob and Harvey first split off from Miramax and Disney. Rodriguez and Tarantino were supposedly working on it right now, but multiple sources are reporting that instead, the project may end up being shut down.

First there was word from Bloody-Disgusting that the half of the film Robert Rodriguez was working on was being abandoned unfinished. Now our friends over at Film Rot say they've been hearing rumors of trouble with the movie for months.

Film Rot's source claims the project was over budget, bizarre since Robert Rodriguez is known for making movies quick and cheap. Their guess is that Sin City 2 may also have something to do with it, and that Robert is dumping Grind to get his much more important, second Sin City installment done with Frank Miller.

Of course, it is possible that Tarantino could go ahead and simply do his part of the film, and dump Rodriguez half. But that seems unlikely, since the whole point of the project was that they'd each do a half and see how it all fit together. What's the point in doing it now? Quentin's notoriously lazy as it is. If Robert's out, it's probably a safe bet that QT's out too.