In Quentin Tarantino's ongoing feud with police unions—or "police mouthpieces," as Tarantino calls them—it's the cops escalating the situation today with a mysterious threat of a "surprise" for The Hateful Eight director.
You can almost hear the glee in the voice of Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, as you read his quote to TheHollywood Reporter. Whatever it is they have in store for Q.T., he's pretty giddy over it.
Economically? Is there some kind of a lawsuit in the works?
The whole situation jumped off after Tarantino marched with protesters against police brutality on Oct. 24 in Manhattan. A Tarantino quote from that day was widely circulated.
Not long after that, several police unions announced a boycott of Tarantino's films, including The Hateful Eight, which comes out on Christmas day. The issue, spokesmen said, was Tarantino calling police "murderers," but the director explained to the Los Angeles Times this week that he was only talking about certain cases.
That apparently wasn't good enough for the Fraternal Order of Police, though, which happens to be the nation's largest police union with more than 330,000 full-time officers paying dues.