Guide Note

Britney Spears has been chosen to play the dancer Varla in the remake of Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.¹ Varla is part of a band of strippers and murderers who attack an unsuspecting couple. Quentin Tarantino is attached to direct the film.¹

Original Film Fast Facts

1. Screenwriters: Russ Meyer and Jack Moran
2. Director: Russ Meyer
3. Release date: August 6, 1965
4. Starring: Tura Satana, Lori Williams and Stuart Lancaster

The original film was released in 1966, starred Tura Sanatana as Varla and was produced for less than $70,000.²

Britney Spears is not the only celebrity to be given a chance at rekindling her career in a Tarantino movie.

Tarantino has helped a variety of actors and actresses with flagging careers get back in front of the camera. John Travolta's starring role as mid-level gangster Vincent Vega in 1994's Pulp Fiction led to more roles in films like Get Shorty, Primary Colors and Broken Arrow.

1970s Blaxploitation star Pam Grier had a second chance for fame in 1997's Jackie Brown. Her career failed to take off again perhaps due to the film's modest success at the box office.³

More recently, David Caradine was "saved...from two decades of mainly low-budget schlock by [Tarantino] casting him as Kill Bill's titular archvillain."⁴