Interview Sneak Preview with the Quintana!
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Looks Like Barking Spiders is ahead of the curve! Julian Quintana wants to get into sci-fi?! Check it out! Filmonomicon has a great preview of their interview with Julian Quintana coming out next month!
From: Filmonomicon Magazine
“The Cool and The Dead: An All-Too-Brief Conversation with Julian Quinatana”
Julian Quintana’s films include “Where Rats Go To Die”,”Blood In My Blind Spot”,”Clench & McTeague”,”Sisterhood of the Scorpion” and the Oscar- and Palm D’Or-winning “Death Wears a Duster” I caught up with Hollywood’s undisputed master of brass-knuckle cool and machine-gun dialogue on the set of his new film, the much-hyped “Pistol Pennyworth.” Set in late 19th-century England and featuring Rose MacGowan and Franke Potente as two derringer-packing governesses on the run, it’s a two-fisted hybrid of a Merchant-Ivory period piece and the gnarliest offerings of the Peckinpah canon. Think “Howard’s End” meets “Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.” Or, as Quintana himself puts it: “Jane Austen with balls.”
Filmoniicon: So, how’s the shoot going?
Julian Quintana: Unreal. Aside from the usual weather issues, which you expect shooting in Vancouver, it’s been a dream. Franke and Rose are just perfect and have really thrown themselves into the thing and Dakota [Fanning] has been kicking ass, holding down her end with her two big sisters, as she calls them. We shot the escape from Peregrine Abbey yesterday, and we could not get her off that Gatling gun. Even after I’d yell ‘Cut!’ Dakota would just keep strafing the extras, the crew, anybody she could get in her sights, laughing her little ass off. She was ankle-deep in shell casings after like ten minutes of shooting. These women are nuts. I love them.
FM: Edwardian England is a departure from the usual setting of your films. What was the attraction?
JQ: Well, First off I knew I wanted a change of pace from the noirish urban, Old West, and Shaolin Temple settings I’ve been exploring in my previous films. I’ve always been drawn to those great English interiors in the classic period films like “A Room With a View” or “Barry Lyndon.” There’s something about a crystal chandelier, Chippendale table or a beautifully upholstered fainting couch that just makes me want to fuck its shit up, you know? Blow it to flinders. And in “Pistol Pennyworth”, we do that. In spades.
FM: What’s your next project?
JQ: I wanna take a long, hard look at sci-fi, just because, you know? I love all that shit, especially the readiness of the genre to absorb and transform other genre’s tropes. But I don’t want to do anything noble and flawed like “Outland,” which was essentially “High Noon” in outer space, but just kind of layed there, twitching miserably. I want to go for broke and really fuck with people’s expectations, with their comfort zones. So I’m looking at a project called “Hardplace”, which is more like “Deadwood”, but underground.
For more of our interview, pick up the newest issue of FIlmonomicon, out next month!
