Where on earth do you go after relaying the epic story of Shosanna Dreyfus and the Inglourious Basterds? According to Quentin Tarantino, you dial things back a bit. The verbose director recently talked with New York Magazine about the reception of Inglourious Basterds, and (yay!) where he's planning to go from here.

While he has 40 pages written for a prequel to Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino isn't looking to stay on that track right now. A big tease, he won't say what the next film is about, but he did reveal that it will be a "smaller, less epic" film in a "different genre entirely." The magazine writes: "He says he thinks he can finish it in a five- to six-month period of intensive writing." Smaller? Less epic? Does that mean we might get back to something more like Reservoir Dogs? While I loved Basterds, I have been yearning for a small scale film where it all rests on concise and irresistibly quotable dialogue. On another note -- it's been over 10 years since the filmmaker dialed things back ... so who knows what that will mean for a Tarantino film in the year 2010?



It seems Basterds was able to allow Germans to finally find laughter in the WWII movie-going experience: "... it starts getting really funny. And it gets laughs. And all of a sudden, you have a German audience watching a movie about World War II - and they're allowed to laugh! They're allowed to enjoy it! And the fantasy [of assasinating Hitler] is just as much their fantasy as anybody else's." In Israel, Tarantino said: "It wasn't like cheering Indiana Jones. There was something bloodcurdling about it. I don't want to overstate it, but there was an edge to it. There was violence in it ... there was blood in the air, which was wild." (Check out the full quotes at NYM.)

So there you have it. The last went over well, and now it's time to look forward. How do you hope Tarantino's next pic will play out?