Bangkok--Jul 21--Total Quality PR
On AXN (Ch.19, UBC), the heart of action and adventure television, Oscar-winner Quentin Tarantino began shooting the season finale episode of primetime’s most-watched drama series — CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — on Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 9pm*, first and exclusive on AXN (UBC 19).
Tarantino came up with the idea for this explosive episode, in which the life of a CSI team member is in grave danger. The final episode is written by Anthony Zuiker, Creator/Executive Producer, CSI and Co-Creator of CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, Carol Mendelsohn, Executive Producer/Showrunner of CSI and Co-Creator of CSI: Miami and CSI: NY and Naren Shankar, Executive Producer, CSI.
According to Mendelsohn and Shankar, Zuiker learned that Tarantino had been a long-time fan of the forensic drama when he bumped into him at an awards show during an early season of CSI. The CSI producers pursued Tarantino to direct an episode for some time and then — after CSI crew members ran into him recently, while on location shooting in Las Vegas — everything fell into place for him to direct the season five finale.
Speaking with Shankar, recently, to a group of international journalists, Mendelsohn recounted the mutual excitement surrounding Tarantino’s participation.
“When he came in to talk to us, he told us this story about how he felt he had discovered the show when it first came on the air and he was an instant fan,” said Mendelsohn. “I mean, there's Quentin Tarantino in our writers' room. And he loves television ... He's watched every TV movie, every TV show and he pitched out the first idea and we said, ‘You don't have to go any further. It's a great idea.’”
Mendelsohn confirmed that there will be bugs and blood and that the episode is “…Quentin-esque in the sense it's got a lot of jeopardy, a lot of action.”
“It is much more of a thriller than we normally do,” said Shankar.
Tarantino is no stranger to television, having directed a 1995 episode of ER and appeared as a guest actor on Alias in both 2002 and 2004. He won an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for Pulp Fiction. Other features include Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Jackie Brown and Reservoir Dogs.
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