Quentin Tarantino & Sylvester Stallone Team Up for 1930s Gangster Series

Quentin Tarantino is writing a 1930s-set gangster show that he will share directing duties on with Sylvester Stallone. The project is described as a limited six-part series featuring gangsters, showgirls, boxing and music, and it is planned to be filmed in black and white, reportedly using cameras from the 1930s to enhance authenticity.

Plot details have not been announced. It has not been confirmed whether Stallone will appear on camera or serve solely as a director. He has directed eight feature-length films, including four of the first five Rocky movies, Paradise Alley (1978), Staying Alive (1983) and The Expendables (2010), and this would mark his first collaboration with Tarantino.

Tarantino is also moving into live theater; he developed Popinjay Cavalier, described as a "rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise," for London’s West End, where it is scheduled to debut in 2027 and will be set in Europe during the 1830s. He has a well-established history with period work, having directed Once Upon a Time...

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