John Turturro Hoping To Make A Big Lebowski Spinoff Centered Around His Character — cinemablend.com

At the Taorima Film Festival, (via FilmDivider), John Turturro revealed his intention is to make a long-rumored follow-up to The Big Lebowski - specifically one centered on his character Jesus Quintana. He told the audience, Turturro is an experienced director, but the best thing you could say about his skill is that he's purely functional. His latest was a curiosity called Fading Gigolo, a farce where Turturro stars as a mild-mannered flower shop owner who moonlights as a male prostitute. The casting of co-star Woody Allen seems like an ode to Turturro's inspirations. And as a working man, Turturro is appealingly off-kilter, though the fact that he services Sofia Vergara and Sharon Stone in his new film adds to the ludicrousness of a premise that also involves an intensely judgmental Hasidic community led by a deadpan Liev Schrieber. The picture had a very tiny release and somehow collected $13 million worldwide, suggesting that whomever owns the rights to The Big Lebowski maybe should be amenable to Turturro returning to the role.

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