Now that he’s directed both Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino may be setting his sights on a third Western. However, the difference here is that this one looks set to land on the small screen and it’s a project that he’s been talking about since 2000.

In a recent interview to promote The Hateful Eight, the legendary filmmaker revealed his desire to revisit Elmore Leonard’s Forty Lashes Less One as a TV miniseries event.

“It always takes me a while before thinking about the future. That said, I own the rights to this book I’ve wanted to adapt for a while, and the time may have come for me to tackle it. This is Forty Lashes Less One, written by Elmore Leonard…which could be my third western. I’m considering taking the project to TV, in the form of a miniseries of four or six hours.”

Based on the synopsis for Forty Lashes Less One (which you can read below), this is the kind of project which would be very well suited to Tarantino and his unique – and violent – vision.

The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it’s worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they’ll stay behind bars until they’re dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there’s hope. And for two hard and hated inmates — first enemies, then allies by necessity — it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest … on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona’s five most dangerous men.