Quentin Tarantino Reveals Plans Retire after 10th Film- Is The 'Django Unchained' Director Serious?

Is master director Quentin Tarantino definitely planning on retiring after his next movie? The director is threatening to retire after completing his tenth movie, which would mean that once his current project The Hateful Eight is finished, he will only be releasing one more movie.

Tarantino told a Q&A session at the American Film Market that "I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. 

"I do think directing is a young man's game," he added, "and I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie. I'm not trying to ridicule anyone who thinks differently, but I want to go out while I'm still hard. ...

"I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography, and so I've got two more to go after this. It's not etched in stone, but that is the plan. If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don't screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career. If, later on, I come across a good movie, I won't not do it just because I said I wouldn't. But 10 and done, leaving them wanting more - that sounds right."

As for the hugely anticipated The Hateful Eight, Tarantino shined some light on what it would be about. The movie will center on a group of gunslingers caught in a blizzard and are forced to reckon with each other. "It's less inspired by one Western movie than by Bonanza, The Virginian, High Chaparral," Tarantino said.

"No heroes, no Michael Landons. Just a bunch of nefarious guys in a room, all telling backstories that may or may not be true. Trap those guys together in a room with a blizzard outside, give them guns, and see what happens. "

The unsurprisingly star-studded film will include performances from Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as well as turns from Bruce Dern, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Demian Bichir and Channing Tatum. 

As for what he believes he will do once he retires, the director responded he'll be spending his time "writing plays and books, going gracefully into my tender years."

The news has prompted many to cry foul on the 51-year-old's plans, with Esquire pointing out a list of 20 films that came after a director's 10th, and Dazed offering up five ideas about how he could spend his retirement.