Quentin Tarantino says next film will be another western

Quentin Tarantino says next film will be another western, Quentin Tarantino has announced to US talk show host Jay Leno that his next project will be a western. It follows his film Django Unchained in 2012, a western starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz which won Tarantino an Oscar for his screenplay – but Tarantino says that the new project is not connected.

"I can't talk that much about it, but I will say one thing," Tarantino told Leno. "I haven't told anyone about this publicly, but I will say the genre. It's a western. It's not a Django sequel, but it's another Western. I had so much fun doing Django and I love westerns so much, that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'"

Tarantino has often announced the germ of a project which will then not always go on to be made. He proposed then redacted a third Kill Bill film, and a prequel to Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction that would focus on the Vega brothers, while earlier this year he suggested he would make a third 'rewritten history' film following Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.

If the western does come to fruition, digging deeper into a single genre will be a somewhat surprising move from Tarantino, following his jump from the gangster films that made his name into martial arts, war film, B-movies and finally westerns with Django – all united by violence and irreverence. Last month he was extolling the virtues of this genre-hopping, telling a South Korean film festival that "When I make a film I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit.

 I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study." He added that he couldn't make a serial killer movie because it would "reveal my sickness far too much."