It’s official. After weeks of speculation, it’s been confirmed that GRINDHOUSE will be more like GRIND and HOUSE in the U.K., as the brothers Weinstein have decided to separate PLANET TERROR and DEATH PROOF in England.
According to Variety, the underperformance of GRINDHOUSE here in the States has tongues wagging over there, so the Weinsteins are moving ahead with the split, which was not originally in the plans for that territory.
“Based on U.S. audience’s positive reactions to Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Death Proof’ and Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Planet Terror,’ combined with their resistance to the three-hour running time, we’ve revised our U.K. release plans to allow audiences the chance to see the films separately, like they will be shown in all international territories,” Harvey Weinstein said.
DEATH PROOF will be released on September 21 (presumably it will be the version Tarantino has prepared for the Cannes Film Festival). PLANET TERROR hasn’t a release date yet, but the same distributor, Momentum Pictures, will be handling it.
Well, now audiences over there will be able to enjoy PLANET TERROR without getting their hopes raised and then murderously dashed by the unendingly banal DEATH PROOF(yeah, I’m one of those). The real shame is that this probably means that the faux trailers in-between both movies will be jettisoned.
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