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Tarantino Tackles "CSI"
Expect plenty of pulp fiction for the season finale of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Quentin Tarantino will direct the fifth-season clincher of the hit series, CBS confirmed Thursday.
The Kill Bill mastermind has also dreamed up the storyline for the episode, which will air during May sweeps.
"There will be more bugs and blood this time," Carol Mendelsohn, executive producer of the CSI franchise's mothership, quipped to the Hollywood Reporter.
Neither show reps nor Mendelsohn would give up any plot points other than saying that one of the key members of the Las Vegas-based forensics squad is in jeopardy. Mendelsohn refused to say whether the subject of the threat would be the team leader, insect aficionado Gil Grissom (insert gratuitious "Kill Gil" reference here), played by William Petersen, or someone else, like his cohort Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger).
Tarantino, who won an Oscar in 1995 for cowriting Pulp Fiction, and whose work is known for its stylish over-the-top violence and buckets of blood, is apparently a big fan of the typically stomach-churning TV series. As Mendelsohn tells the Reporter, "He knows everything there is to know about CSI and he is into the whole mythology of CSI."
The "mythology" includes last week's number, "King Baby," which focused on a blood-splattered crime in which adult males wore diapers and were serviced by wet nurses. "Catherine smells crap and tells Ecklie not to move. Near his feet is a small turd," is how one key scene plays out, per CBS.com's plot summary.
Which sounds right up Tarantino's alley. The guru of gore hooked up with executive producer Anthony Zuiker at an award show during CSI's first season and learned of Tarantino's enthusiasm for the series. Zuiker had been trying to recruit Tarantino to direct an episode ever since.
Another chance encounter sealed the deal, when some crew members shooting location footage in Las Vegas (the show's standing sets are in Santa Clarita near Los Angeles) ran into Tarantino.
"Quentin came in a couple of weeks ago. We had a story meeting with the writers. He had a great idea, and it was so much fun to have him in the room," says Mendelson, who wrote the teleplay with Naren Shankar and Zuiker.
CSI is TV's most watched drama, averaging 26.2 million viewers a week this season.
Tarantino's erratic auteur career includes directing the crime dramas Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown. His previous forays in television came as both a director (the 1995 "Motherhood" episode of NBC's ER) and actor (a recurring role as vengeful agent McKenas Cole in ABC's Alias).
Aside from CSI, Tarantino is scheduled to begin work later this year on an untitled kung-fu flick. He also has a WWII-themed action film titled Inglorious Bastards in the works.
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