Nation's largest police union threatens Quentin Tarantino with "surprise"

NEW YORK -- The executive director of the largest police union in the country has threatened a "surprise" for Quentin Tarantino after the director drew its ire for comments about police brutality.

Jim Pasco of the Fraternal Order of Police told the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday that the union has something planned for Tarantino and that "the element of the surprise is the most important element." Pasco said the union will "try to hurt him the only way that seems to matter to him, and that's economically."

Tarantino said at an October rally against police brutality that he's "on the side of the murdered." He has since said he's not "anti-police" and claimed he's being demonized.

Tarantino told the The Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that law enforcement groups are trying to bully him.

"Instead of dealing with the problem of police brutality in this country, better they single me out," Tarantino told the Times.

"And their message is very clear," he continued. "It's to shut me down. It's to discredit me. It is to intimidate me. It is to shut my mouth, and even more important than that, it is to send a message out to any other prominent person that might feel the need to join that side of the argument."

"But you know, that's their choice to do that to me," the director added to the Times. "What can I do? I'm not taking back what I said. What I said was the truth. I'm used to people misrepresenting me; I'm used to being misunderstood. What I'd like to think is their attack against me is so vicious that they're revealing themselves. They're hiding in plain sight."

Numerous police groups have said they'll boycott Tarantino's upcoming film, "The Hateful Eight."

Tarantino's last film, 2012's "Django Unchained," earned $425.4 million globally and won two Oscars, including best screenplay for Tarantino.