Remakesploitation.

I'm catching up from a few days off the grid, so it's still news to me that the Telegraph reported last week that Britney Spears may or may not have been picked by Quentin Tarantino to play Varla in a remake of the Russ Meyer's 1965 "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" that may or may not be happening: A source said: "Quentin is convinced Britney will be brilliant. She's delighted. She thinks it could turn her career around. It is perfect Tarantino material. He wanted to get Britney first. She's playing the most important character." The story seems a little unlikely, and not just because various reps and sources have been denying everything to Access Hollywood -- such stunt casting seems ghoulish even for QT, whose fondness for dusting off long-shelved film icons wouldn't, you'd think, extend to having a fallen pop star now mostly known for tragic tabloid antics attempt...

I’m catching up from a few days off the grid, so it’s still news to me that the Telegraph reported last week that Britney Spears may or may not have been picked by Quentin Tarantino to play Varla in a remake of the Russ Meyer’s 1965 “Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” that may or may not be happening:

A source said: “Quentin is convinced Britney will be brilliant. She’s delighted. She thinks it could turn her career around. It is perfect Tarantino material. He wanted to get Britney first. She’s playing the most important character.”

The story seems a little unlikely, and not just because various reps and sources have been denying everything to Access Hollywood — such stunt casting seems ghoulish even for QT, whose fondness for dusting off long-shelved film icons wouldn’t, you’d think, extend to having a fallen pop star now mostly known for tragic tabloid antics attempt to camp things up on screen. Tarantino-related casting that has been confirmed, from the Hollywood Reporter: Brad Pitt, who’ll play the head of the Jewish resistance in “Inglorious Bastards,” with Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz and Nastassja Kinski in various talks for other roles. Plus “B.J. Novak and Eli Roth are in talks to play soldiers in Pitt’s rogue army.”

Elsewhere, director Jack Hill, of “Switchblade Sisters,” “Coffy,” “Foxy Brown” and beyond, responds to an article from Noah Berlatsky in the latest issue of Bright Lights Film Journal at the journal’s blog:

Re: Switchblade Sisters: About the rape scene: It was patterned specifically on a similar situation and actual scene in The Fountainhead (both book and movie), which as I’m sure you know was written by a rabid radical conservative woman (as a kind of personal in-joke). I rest my case.

[Photo: Tura Satana as Varla in "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," Eve Productions, 1965]

+ Britney Spears to play lesbian killer in Quentin Tarantino film (Telegraph)
+ Britney Rep: Singer Not Playing Killer Lesbian Stripper In Film (Access Hollywood)
+ Brad Pitt, Simon Pegg hang with ‘Bastards’ (Hollywood Reporter)
+ Jack Hill Speaks (Bright Lights After Dark)