Quentin Tarantino's God fear

May 6, 2007, 7:00 GMT

Quentin Tarantino - © Scott Alan / Photorazzi

Quentin Tarantino fears God may strike him down at any moment.

The 'Kill Bill' director believes 'The Almighty' might kill him because he has already achieved everything he was he was put on Earth to do.

Tarantino told Britain's GQ magazine: "Before I ever did anything with my career, I always thought, 'I don't have to worry about dying in an earthquake, I'm not going to die in a plane crash - I've got stuff to do. God didn't put me here to take me out.'

"But then, sometime after 'Pulp Fiction', I started thinking, 'Maybe I've done what I was supposed to do.' "

It was the 44-year-old filmmakers sudden fear of dying which inspired the concept for his latest movie 'Death Proof', which features a killer mowing his victims down in a reinforced car.

Tarantino recalls: "I decided I was going to get a safer car and someone in the movie industry told me, 'Just buy any car you want, give it to a stunt team and give them $10,000 and have them death-proof it. They can do that to any car.'

"I never forgot that. It always lived back in my mind waiting to come out."

'Death Proof' is currently on release as a double bill with Robert Rodriguez's 'Planet Terror' under the title 'Grindhouse'.

However, the special double-feature has achieved disappointing box office figures in the US.  As a result, Grindhouse no longer a double bill in the UK.

Grindhouse is to be released in the UK as two separate films following its less-than-robust box office performance in the US.

The production had been due to open as a three-hour "double feature" on June 1 but will now be held back and broken up. Quentin Tarantino's movie, Death Proof, is to open on September 21. Robert Rodriguez's film, Planet Terror, will open at a later date according to the Guardian Unlimited.

Grindhouse was greeted by glowing reviews on its US release last month. But the film's novel structure appeared to confuse and vex theater goers. 

Playing as a double-bill, Grindhouse made a disappointing $11.6m (£5.8m) on its opening weekend, way short of expectations.

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