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Quentin Tarantino Scores ‘Upper’, Gets Cold Feet?
Odds are I’m being tricked into publishing this story, but whomever is behind this viral output deserves a nod for grabbing my attention and wasting a good 30 minutes of my morning trying to understand what I was looking at. Now it’s your turn.
Doing some research, the madness apparently began earlier this year when a YouTube video surfaced depicting a young girl overdosing and a group of kids standing around laughing. Allegedly, an extortion plot was set into motion back in November of 2010 surrounding the footage, in an attempt get a pay day from the people involved. When a deal wasn’t reached, footage was slowly released into the world. Apparently there’s 393 minutes of recorded evidence.
Anyways, it was reported back in July that Quentin Tarantino had acquired all of the footage with the intent on releasing it as a film entitled Upper. The big conspiracy surrounding the footage is that one of the alleged identified teens is Blake Pennington, apparently someone famous whom I’ve never heard of (researching led me to some college football pages, so maybe he’s a big football star?)
Anyways, after a series of backlash, rumor has it that Tarantino is getting cold feet and backing off releasing the film – yet other unknown parties are pushing to get it released. The questions are: is this real footage and are they actually trying to be bury it, or is this some sort of brilliant viral stunt? I can’t find the clues and have about 100 other things to do today, thus I shall leave you with the following “leaked” trailer. Talk below.
Two-time BAFTA winning filmmaker Joe Wright (Hanna, “Black Mirror“) is set to direct the feature adaptation of post-apocalyptic thriller novel, Juice, Deadline reports today.
Emmy winner Abi Morgan (Shame, “Eric”) will adapt Tim Winton‘s novel for Working Title Films.
In Juice, “A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.”
It’s set in a world ravaged by climate-change disaster.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Tim Winton has entrusted us with his extraordinary epic,” Wright told Deadline. “The story is both a thrilling modern family saga and an urgent call to action. I cannot wait for audiences to experience it on the big screen.”
Winton added, “I’m pleased to know a filmmaker of Joe Wright’s calibre has chosen to adapt Juice for the screen. His capacity to portray the turmoil and the turning points of nations and peoples as well as private individuals distinguishes his work as a director and I’m confident that Juice is in good hands.”
Juice was initially published in October 2024 and longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026.
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