“The Movie Critic”
Quentin Tarantino abandons his film project
Quentin Tarantino has backed away from his film idea “The Movie Critic.”
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Quentin Tarantino has stopped his final project “The Movie Critic”. He backed away from his script idea. What’s next?
Roll backwards by star director Quentin Tarantino (61). According to a report by the generally well-informed industry magazine “Deadline”, his final film project “The Movie Critic” is currently on hold. It was actually planned that Tarantino would start filming his tenth and final film this year. Brad Pitt (60) was supposed to play the leading role in it. But nothing will come of it for the time being. According to “Deadline” information, Tarantino himself has backed away from his script idea.
Accordingly, he changed his mind and quickly decided that “The Movie Critic” would not be his last film. He no longer wants to pursue the project. Tarantino announced details about his film idea in several interviews in spring 2023. Accordingly, it is a story that should take place in California in 1977. The focus was on a real person, who was never really famous: the film critic for a porn magazine.
Tarantino is said to have drawn inspiration from his own life: as a teenager, he filled newspaper boxes with porn magazines and emptied their coin slots. He himself told Deadline at last year’s Cannes Film Festival: “All that stuff was so sleazy you couldn’t read it. But there was this one porn magazine that had a really interesting film page.” A critic wrote there who was “biting and clever”. This critic should become the protagonist of his film, and should be embodied by Brad Pitt.
“The Hateful Eight” has also been rejected in the meantime
However, “The Movie Critic” is not yet completely and forever off the table, writes “Deadline”. Tarantino also temporarily rejected his idea for “The Hateful Eight,” but later reinstated it. The next few weeks and months will show whether a revised version of “The Movie Critic” will still make it, or whether Tarantino will pull a completely new idea out of the hat.
After his last project “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” in 2019, Quentin Tarantino announced that he would only make one last and tenth film as a director and then retire. His first film was “Reservoir Dogs – Wilde Hunde” from 1992. He directed milestones in film history such as “Pulp Fiction”, “Kill Bill”, “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django Unchained”. He was also on board as a writer and/or part-director for many other iconic Hollywood films such as “Sin City”, “True Romance”, “Four Rooms”, “Natural Born Killers” and “From Dusk Till Dawn”.