Talking to The Big Picture podcast (via /Film), Tarantino has shared that he wants to remake First Blood, but this time based on the original novel by David Morrell. He says:

“When David O. Russell talked about doing ‘The Fighter,’ he was over himself and over being the auteur… He just wanted to make a good movie that people are going to enjoy. There was something really refreshing about him saying that, and that perspective. If I just wanted to make a good movie, that I knew would be good, I would take David Morrell’s novel for ‘First Blood’ and do the novel. Not the movie that was made out of ‘First Blood.’ I would do the novel.”

Just in case you didn’t know, First Blood – which came out in 1982– was the film that introduced audiences to the character of John Rambo played by Sylvester Stallone. Though Rambo is pretty much a pop-culture icon today, it would be interesting to see how Tarantino would handle the story.

Here’s his fancast for the film:

“Kurt Russell would play the sheriff, and [Adam Driver] would play Rambo. Every time I read it, the dialogue is so fantastic in the David Morrell novel that you’re reading it out loud. It would be so good. But now I want to do more than that. But if it was just about to make a good movie, that’s out there.”

After teasing working on a Star Trek movie, I doubt that Tarantino would want to make his last film an adaptation. Then again, with Tarantino notorious for ‘borrowing’ elements from other things, a war epic adaptation of First Blood would be interesting.