When it comes right down to it, Quentin Tarntino has only made three good movies and the last one came out in 1997. Still, he’s someone with a singular talent and that means you shouldn’t snicker behind your hand when you hear he wants to remake a Russ Meyer movie. Meyer made a lot of really crappy movies in the 1960’s that most people saw mainly because they featured chicks with big hooters. His movies were what horny guys watched before Cinemax.
According to Variety columnist Liz Smith, Tarantino would like to remake Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! with Kim Kardashian, Eva Mendes, and Britney Spears as the three females on the run through the desert. The original has become a cult hit, but that seems to be based on the silly title and other “so bad it’s good” qualities that are common to Meyer’s work.
At this point, it doesn’t seem that Tarantino has anyone actually interested in giving him the money to make this movie. He also didn’t reveal any plot points other than he’d like to make this version “even raunchier.” No one in his dream cast would likely be interested in making the film and I can’t imagine why anyone would want to see it. Maybe you should snicker behind your hand after all.
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Russ Meyer was a formidable filmmaker who influenced many other artists. His talent editing his films is second to none - the rapid fire jump cut style he used kept his movies moving at breakneck pace and formed the model of MTV-style editing in TV and movies today. "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" is one of his signature films and remains entertaining and important today. I'm very excited about the prospect of a remake, and Quentin Tarantino (Russ Meyer fan) may be the only director who could pull it off. If this does get off the ground, it should be done in colour this time (although the black and white used in the original is effective) and the actresses need to be as "busty" and amazonian as possible, as this was Meyer's trademark. Pamela Anderson could make the short list for the Billie character. What about Kelly Brook for the Rosie character? The Varla character is the most important casting decision. Lucy Lawless comes to mind.... It might be a case where Tarantino would need to cast like Meyer did and consider the stripper/adult industry scene - there just aren't many big and busty actresses in the mainstream.
This is definately a remake I would LOVE to see, but Tarantino has a habit of feeding the rumour mill with ideas for future movies which don't get made (Vega Brothers movie, Inglorious Bastards, etc.) I'll wait until I see much more evidence that this Russ Meyer remake is getting made before I get too excited.
ED ARE YOU CRAZY? Russ Meyer made amazing films! You don't know your film history at all when it comes to Mr Meyer who along with signal corps shot some of the most famous WW2 footage that exists today. VIXEN was so successful that 2oth century cam knocking with two picture deal so lumping him in with Doris Wishman and others is not astute nor accurate.
Eva Mendez is built entirely wrong for Varla or any Russ Meyer film beautiful as she is she does not have a powerful mega busty stacked Amazonian figure and that can't be faked for a film like this. Mendez hypes her body a lot but she's smaller than endowed which is a no no in any Meyer film. Like casting itty bittys like Rachel Bilson and Jessica Beil as Wonder Woman this is wishful thinking not reality where the figure is 100% crucial to the role.
Russ Meyer films are D cup minimum to ignore that is too be very disrespectful to his incredible legacy as filmmaker and unabashed big breast fetishist.
Kim Kardashian is the only viable choice of the three.
Granted Lori Williams who played Billie was smaller chested and padded for the film, she had a 24 inch waist and 36 inch hips and like Mendez Britney is not built anything like her character.
Kim Kardashian as Haji's character Rosie is even a stretch too despite Kim having the only figure of three remotely approaching the Russ Meyer archetypal figure. is Kim an actress? She may not have Haji's charming emotional depth and intimidating screen presence which is crucial to the part of Rosie. I do think she could pull it off though!
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