Faster, Pussycat! Tarantino and Spears Together At Last!
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Casting, RumorMonger, Remakes and Sequels
I admit it: I have a pretty big soft spot for Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! It was the first movie I rented after moving out of rural land and discovering urban video stores that had all the old classics, hard-to-find flicks, and cult greats. It marked a new era in my movie-going life, but I think that even if this was some movie I hated, or never even heard of, I'd still throw up in my mouth a little over this piece of news. Liz Smith over at Variety says that Quentin Tarantino is itching to remake the 1966 cult classic. Normally, this would be fine. I usually enjoy, or even love, what he puts up on the big screen. But cult fans -- Tarantino seems to have lost his marbles.Smith goes on to say that he's got his first casting choices set -- Kim Kardashian (Sure, why not?), Eva Mendes (I can dig it...), and Britney Spears. Yes -- wacky, unstable, and driving 100 mph towards a sturdy, brick wall, Crazy Lady Spears. That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Hell, I'm even with Smith on ditching Spears and picking up La Lohan. Why? The latter might have her share of tabloid turmoil, but at least she's got some acting chops in there as well. A little craziness and some acting talent -- that's just what a Pussycat remake would need. Besides -- would he wants Spears on the set? Just imagine the tabloid fodder that would bring.
Yes! I must forget this news for a bit to maintain my sanity, so let's play a game: Should Britney get the gig, and bring her tabloid life to the film set, how would it play out? Muse below!
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1-27-2008 @ 5:58PM
Super Amanda said...
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 em,otional depth and intimidating screen presence which is crucial to the part of Rosie
I wish Tarantino would not touch this film until he remakes his latest film "Grindhouse" with at least a few women naturally built in the Uscshi Digard 40DD tradition which made Grindhouse what it was not six pack abs Maxim clones and tabloid chicks.
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1-27-2008 @ 5:59PM
Hommy said...
To Ellroy: "Lindsay Lohan, Rosario Dawson and Megan Fox"
Oh wow! that would be awful!!!!!! B cup Central Yuck!
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1-17-2008 @ 3:22PM
Adam said...
Tarantino has always done whatever the hell he pleases, creatively at least. The material he started with was popular, and earned him a lot of fans. Now he's having fun doing other stuff, and alienating some fans in the process. I don't think he cares... he probably shouldn't.
But yeah, Britney Spears being cast would suck.
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1-17-2008 @ 3:40PM
LRS62 said...
If this is real, and I have my doubts, this is probably the stupidest idea QT has ever had.
This movie doesn't need a remake- but even so I can comfort myself with the fact that he has talked about making a dozen or so films that will never happen.
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1-17-2008 @ 4:51PM
Christopher said...
For one "Faster, Pussycat! Kill!... Kill!" is a cult film, & I really don't think this is 1 film that needs to be re-made (It Plays at least once a month on TCM!, & it always plays somewhere on the big scren at Midnight!)
& 2 Kim Kardashian, Eva Mendes and Britney Spears all 3 coudln't act there way out of paperbags!
With all 3 of these woman in a film, it would become the biggest joke in Hollywood & run Quentin right out of town!
This would be the biggest mistake in film history, next to that shit Rob Zombie made into "Halloween" last year!
IF Quentin Tarantino goes forth with this I would "LOSE" all resepect for him has a director!
What happend to his supposed prequel on the Vega brothers??
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1-17-2008 @ 7:30PM
dana said...
Lindsay Lohan is actually a really good idea for this film, even though I doubt this rumor is real. But if you think about it, the actresses in the first film weren't the best in the world, either. It would be insanely fun, I'm sure, but I really don't think it'll ever happen.
And Christopher, what I think happened to the Vega brothers prequel was that both Travolta and Madsen aged out of it. Think about it, could they EVER play younger versions of themselves now?!
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1-17-2008 @ 8:31PM
Ellory said...
If he wants to remake Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! I say more power to him. Rob Zombie got to remake Halloween which is a horror fanboys dream project. Robert Rodriguez is getting to remake a scifi fanboys dream project with Barbarella. JJ Abrams is working on a Star Trek update. I'm sure QT has always wanted to do this kind of remake and it could be a very good time.
Now onto the casting... I'd prefer Lindsay Lohan, Rosario Dawson and Megan Fox over the three ladies listed in the Variety article. Saying that, Russ Meyer didn't exactly cast Academy Award nominees. If he wants to create a scandalous environment around the set to draw up buzz that's one thing; in fact the paparazzi trainwreck might gets some women into the theatre that wouldn't even remotely care otherwise. Anyway, QT talks about so many things so quickly for all we know he really wants Scarlett Johannson, Alicia Keys and Rose McGowan but he named like 25 actresses and the three in the article were the ones that stuck out to Smith.
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