Quentin Tarantino's work on The Hateful Eight began as a continuation of Django Unchained

In a 2015 interview with GQ, Quentin Tarantino revealed that he had started writing a prose sequel to "Django Unchained." As he told the magazine's Zach Baron, "I liked the idea of ​​creating a new pop culture folk hero character that I created with Django, which I think is going to last a long time." In fact, he saw in it something that black fathers and sons could share. By Tarantino:

"I think over generations and stuff, you know, hopefully this can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unleashed?' And when they get old enough - 14 or 15 or something - then maybe it's something they do with their dads, and that's a cool thing. And then Django becomes their hero cow- boy. And so I like the idea of ​​maybe like a paperback series, "Further Adventures of Django," and so I was really into the idea."

There was only one problem: his snowy Django prose turned into "The Hateful Eight", which doesn't feature the character. "The first thing I had to do was get rid of Django," Tarantino joked.

If Tarantino is truly determined to retire from acting (and, as you've read, he has a habit of changing his mind on a whim), it seems quite possible that these scuttled projects could be recovered in the form of novels or, who knows, comic books. Perhaps he would be open to other directors or screenwriters pursuing series with these characters (surprisingly he signed an episodic presentation of "The Hateful Eight" for Netflix). Tarantino proved surprisingly malleable in his later years. Personally, I'd love to see Django rolling again.