Quentin Tarantino gave advice on ‘Piranha 3D’ scenes, says director

Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja has revealed that Quentin Tarantino was pitching him ideas for the movie before he started filming.

The cult horror comedy was released in 2010 and is set on the waterside resort Lake Victoria, where an underground tremor releases hundreds of prehistoric piranhas into the lake, causing carnage.

The film was helmed by French director Alexandre Aja, and in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aja has said that he met with the Pulp Fiction director a number of times ahead of the making of the movie.

“I’ve met with Quentin a few times, and one of the times, we had dinner together in Paris right before I was going to make Piranha 3D,” Aja said. “So I was pitching him all the scenes, and he was pitching me other things that he was thinking about, so I knew how much he loved these types of movies.”

Tarantino would go on to be an outspoken fan of another of Aja’s creature features, 2019’s Crawl, a film that sees killer alligators preying upon a family in Florida during a hurricane.

“My friend Eli Roth called me to say, ‘Hey, Quentin watched [Crawl] and really loved it’,” Aja continued. “And then I saw the announcement online, so the fact that he really enjoyed the movie was the nicest thing ever. Sometimes, you do movies and you never know [how they’re going to be received]. But when you find an audience that also includes the critics and your peers that you admire the most, that’s why you keep trying to tell stories.”

Aja’s latest film is Never Let Go, a survival horror starring Halle Berry as the mother of twins who live in a remote woodland in British Columbia and are being tormented by an unseen entity. The film is released in UK cinemas on Friday (September 27).

Tarantino, meanwhile, recently said he believes Alec Baldwin is partially responsible for the shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, proclaimed he has “no desire” to ever watch Toy Story 4, and been told to “fuck off” by George Clooney over comments he made that Clooney is “not a movie star”.

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