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Quentin Tarantino loves film. Few filmmakers can boast such a wide knowledge of movies, especially the B-films and grindhouse works that have inspired his greatest cinematic accomplishments. Tarantino also loves to talk about future projects. Put those two passions together and you get a guy who often teases movies he never actually ends up making.

Of course, it’s not always talk. Many of his best movies, including Kill Bill and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood started as ideas that he blabbed about to anyone who would listen. But while that approach builds excitement, it also sets up fans for disappointment, such as when it was revealed that he had abandoned The Movie Critic, which for months was teased as the director’s 10th and final film.

Now including The Movie Critic, here are the most intriguing Tarantino projects that never got made.

Double V Vega

Perhaps the longest rumored unmade Tarantino,...

Django/Zorro #1

Written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner

Art by Esteve Polls

Colors by Brennan Wagner

Published by Dynamite Comics

Even though historically speaking, Zorro and Django were contemporaries, they couldn’t be more different. First, there is their ages. Zorro is 95 years old whereas Django hasn’t even celebrated his second birthday as a fictional character. They come in different social classes and cultures (Mexican aristocrat and former African American slave) and are children of different genres with Zorro taking his cues from the pulp and superhero genres while Django is a product of blaxploitation and the Western. Going beyond their character differences, Django/Zorro #1 is scripted by a writer known for his work in pulp comics and plotted by one known for Pulp Fiction. However, like Django and Don Diego de la Vega, co-writers Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner use both the differences and similarities between their...

Zorro Rides Again #2

Written by Matt Wagner

Art by Esteve Polls

Colors by Oscar Manuel Martin

Letters by Simon Bowland

Cover by Matt Wagner

Dynamite Entertainment Release date: August 31, 2011

Cover Price: $3.99

I’ve always found Zorro interesting, although I sometimes confuse him with the Lone Ranger. (Even though the Ranger has a sidekick and Zorro doesn’t, figure that out.) Zorro Rides Again is the kind of comic book that shows why comic books get to keep the word book in their name. This book takes place in a Spanish colony, where corruption runs rampant, and the weak need to be defended, by none other than Zorro! [...]...

Writer Chuck Dixon will pen a four-issue miniseries based on the upcoming Lionsgate movie The Expendables. Published by Dynamite Entertainment, the comic will serve as a prequel to the Sylvester Stallone film and feature artwork from Esteve Polls. "I'm only going off the screenplay which is a huge help as it's so clearly and succinctly written. But it's hard to get a feel from a screenplay alone. But I think (I hope) I captured Stallone's vibe," Dixon told Newsarama. "His dialogue here is very distinctive (more)...

The Expendables stars Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger; and features all the staples of briliant action cinema: an evil dictator, a dodgy federal agent, a rag-tag bunch of heroes, a cr@pload of explosions, and of course a kick-arse cast.

A tie-in to the movie, which is due out in August, Dynamite Comics are releasing a four-issue The Expendables miniseries from creators Chuck Dixon and Esteve Polls. As a teaser to the May release, Dynamite have previewed the covers for the first two issues at Newsarama.

Between this book and the A-Team tie-in, it’s a good time to be an action comic fan!

Dynamite Entertainment has given fans a glimpse of what to expect when its new Stargate comics hit shelves. To coincide with the debut of television series Stargate Universe, the publisher is to release anthology comic Stargate #0 in October. The book features a Universe story by Chuck Dixon and Nigel Raynor, an Sg-1 tale by Brandon Jerwa and Walter Geovani, and a Doug Murray and Esteve Polls offering based on Atlantis. All three stories spin off into their own ongoing books. Speaking about Sg-1, Jerwa told Newsarama: "There is a glimpse of the near future (more)...

Last week’s flood of comics has receded, but there’s still some great issues with crossover appeal hitting shelves this week that you should add to your list. Here’s what’s looking good:

“The Good, The Bad And The Ugly” #1 (Dynamite) — Clint Eastwood’s iconic “Man with No Name” rides again in this brand new story by writer Chuck Dixon and artist Esteve Polls. I don’t care what you say about “Dirty Harry,” folks — “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and the rest of the “Man With No Name” films were Eastwood at his cigar-chompin’, squinty-eyed best. This issue kicks off the five-part story “Dead Man’s Hand,” and I couldn’t be happier to see the character continue to be one of the premiere bad-asses in any medium.

“Drafted: One Hundred Days” (Devil’s Due) — This one-shot story promises to tell the story of...