Academy Award-winning director Quentin Tarantino has revealed the one Marvel movie he would be interested in making. During an appearance at an event in New York hosted by Elvis Mitchell to discuss his new book Cinema Speculation (via Variety), Tarantino stated that he would join the Marvel Universe to bring Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos to the big screen.

Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee and published by Marvel Comics from 1963 to 1981, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos follows Nick Fury, played in the MCU by frequent Tarantino collaborator Samuel L. Jackson, and his elite squad of Howling Commandos as they battle Nazis in the trenches and prove themselves to be a force to be reckoned with. The first appearance of Nick Fury, Tarantino would no doubt love to make a pulpy war flick and tell the story of how the character becomes a hero.

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While Tarantino has now chosen the Marvel movie he would like to helm, he has said in the past that he would never be tempted to make an installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “You have to be a hired hand to do those things,” Tarantino said previously when asked if he would ever direct an installment in either the Marvel Cinematic Universe of the DC Universe. “I’m not a hired hand. I’m not looking for a job.” So, should the studio want to see a Tarantino-helmed Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, it would likely need to be separate from the rest of the franchise.

Tarantino Almost Made a Luke Cage Movie Early in His Career

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Interestingly, long before the emergence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tarantino came close to directing a Luke Cage movie early in his career. “There was a time before all this Marvel s–t was coming out. It was after Reservoir Dogs, it was before Pulp Fiction, and I had thought about doing Luke Cage,” Tarantino revealed back in 2020. “Growing up I was a big comic book collector, and my two favorite [comic books] were Luke Cage: Hero for Hire, later Luke Cage: Power Man, and Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu. I also liked Werewolf by Night, that was a great one, and Tomb of Dracula was great, but my absolute hero was Luke Cage.”

Ultimately, it was Tarantino’s friends who stopped him from doing it. “What actually dissuaded me from doing it… was my comic geek friends talked me out of it,” the filmmaker continued. “Because I had an idea that Larry Fishburne would’ve been the perfect guy to play Luke Cage. And I’m talking King of New York era Larry Fishburne. ‘My name is Jimmy Jump.’ … But All my friends were like, ‘No, no, listen, it’s got to be Wesley Snipes.’ And I go, ‘Look, I like Wesley Snipes, but Larry Fishburne is practically Marlon Brando. I think Fish is the man.’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah, but he’d have to get in shape in a big way. Snipes is that way already!’ And I go, ‘F–k that! That’s not that important! F–k you, you ruined the whole damn thing!’”

Cinema Speculation, the first nonfiction book by Quentin Tarantino, is out now.