Quentin Tarantino wants pod people to have their day. News that Quentin Tarantino is still going to make The Hateful Eight, his lawsuit-plagued Western, isn’t the only big news out of the Quentin Tarantino camp lately. At Comic Con Tarantino also revealed plans for a Django Unchained/Zorro mashup, which only Tarantino could possibly do. Still there’s more…
What really captured the attention of the Comic Con crowd was the director’s answer to a fan about trying out Science Fiction! He’s going to do it–Tarantino and SciFi–a match made in heaven. Tarantino said “this is the first time I’ll be able to say ‘maybe.’ It won’t be a spaceship sci-fi, it’ll be earthbound. I would like to put a spin on the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I want to take it from the pod people’s perspective, so you’re actually rooting for the pod people. I don’t think they’re so bad.”