Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja has revealed that Quentin Tarantino was pitching him concepts for the film earlier than he began filming.
The cult horror comedy was launched in 2010 and is about on the waterside resort Lake Victoria, the place an underground tremor releases a whole lot of prehistoric piranhas into the lake, inflicting carnage.
The movie was helmed by French director Alexandre Aja, and in a brand new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aja has stated that he met with the Pulp Fiction director plenty of occasions forward of the making of the film.
“I’ve met with Quentin a couple of occasions, and one of many occasions, we had dinner collectively in Paris proper earlier than I used to be going to make Piranha 3D,” Aja stated. “So I used to be pitching him all of the scenes, and he was pitching me different issues that he was desirous about, so I knew how a lot he cherished a lot of these films.”
Tarantino would go on to be an outspoken fan of one other of Aja’s creature options, 2019’s Crawl, a movie that sees killer alligators preying upon a household in Florida throughout a hurricane.
“My buddy Eli Roth known as me to say, ‘Hey, Quentin watched [Crawl] and actually cherished it’,” Aja continued. “After which I noticed the announcement on-line, so the truth that he actually loved the film was the nicest factor ever. Typically, you do films and also you by no means know [how they’re going to be received]. However while you discover an viewers that additionally consists of the critics and your friends that you just admire probably the most, that’s why you retain attempting to inform tales.”
Aja’s newest movie is By no means Let Go, a survival horror starring Halle Berry because the mom of twins who dwell in a distant woodland in British Columbia and are being suffering from an unseen entity. The movie is launched in UK cinemas on Friday (September 27).
Tarantino, in the meantime, just lately stated he believes Alec Baldwin is partially answerable for the capturing of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, proclaimed he has “no need” to ever watch Toy Story 4, and been instructed to “fuck off” by George Clooney over feedback he made that Clooney is “not a film star”.
