Quentin Tarantino scraps plans for his remaining movie – stories

Quentin Tarantino has reportedly deserted his plans for The Film Critic, the movie that was to be his tenth and remaining mission.

Deadline reported on Thursday that an nameless supply near Tarantino had confirmed the information, reporting that Tarantino had “merely modified his thoughts” about making The Film Critic and could be “going again to the drafting board to determine what that remaining film will probably be”.

The 61-year-old director has lengthy stated he would solely make 10 movies earlier than retiring. He has stated that he considers Kill Invoice to be one movie, though it was cut up into two components, and that he doesn’t rely his first mission, an newbie movie known as My Finest Buddy’s Birthday that was by no means launched, in direction of the overall.

The Film Critic, which was set to be his tenth movie and would star Brad Pitt, was impressed by Tarantino’s job as a teen: loading porn magazines right into a merchandising machine.

“All the opposite stuff was too skanky to learn, however then there was this porno rag that had a very attention-grabbing film web page,” Tarantino informed Deadline in 2023. He stated the movie “relies on a man who actually lived however was by no means actually well-known, and he used to write down film critiques for a porno rag … He was very impolite, you already know. He cursed. He used racial slurs. However his shit was actually humorous. He was as impolite as hell.”

“He wrote about mainstream motion pictures and he was the second-string critic,” Tarantino later stated, of his unnamed inspiration. “I believe he was an excellent critic. He was cynical as hell. His critiques have been a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle could be if he have been a movie critic.”

The Film Critic was to be set in California in 1977 and the critic could be working for a fictional publication known as The Popstar Pages, Tarantino had confirmed. He additionally stated he was in search of a lead “within the 35-year-old ball park” and “a brand new main man for me”.

It had been rumoured that Pitt would play his As soon as Upon a Time … in Hollywood character Cliff Sales space, who was a giant film fan in Tarantino’s novelisation of the movie.

Manufacturing on the movie was beforehand delayed when Tarantino determined to rewrite the script.

Tarantino has beforehand returned to tasks after shelving them: in 2014 he quickly cancelled his plans to make The Hateful Eight when a tough draft of the movie’s script leaked on-line after he shared it with a small group of actors. After calling this a “betrayal” and saying “I’ve no want to make it”, The Hateful Eight was finally made and launched in 2015.