There’s little to go on here so we don’t really know the full circumstances behind this but there’s at least some quotes which make the story legit. There’s reports across the web today that Quentin Tarantino was offered the job of directing a big screen version of the cult 70’s show Hawaii Five-O.

The reason he turned down the flick is as good as any I guess…

“My producing partner at the time Lawrence Bender was hanging out with some dude from Fox or Warners or whatever, and they said I should stop working on what I was doing, because I’d be so into this. I tried to watch the old TV show, but it sucks. I don’t even like Hawaii.”

He can’t even remember which studio offered him the gig? Just shows ya how much attention he was paying to the guy trying to pitch a Hawaii Five-O movie to him when he clearly couldn’t care less about directing it.

A movie adaptation of the show has been in the works for some time now over at Warner Brothers with a script from George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum) and Roger Towne (The Recruit) approved some time ago, but WB are notorious for movies being stuck in development hell for years and years. Just look at Conan which they recently let the rights slip out of their hands.

Hawaii Five-O ran for 278 episodes between 1968 and 1980 and starred Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett, a fictional detective working for the Hawaii police department. For a long time it was the longest running cop show on t.v. but it has now since been surpassed by Taggart in the U.K. and Law and Order in the U.S.

The show probably more famous for it’s TV theme tune more than anything else could have been a nice fit for Tarantino, with cool guys wearing cool clothes spurting out cool dialogue in the cool setting of Hawaii. How many cool’s is that? Can’t help it when you talk about movies that might have involved Tarantino, you just think to yourself… ‘now that would have been cool’.

source - filmstalker, star pulse news