Brad Pitt is reportedly set to star in Quentin Tarantino’s final film, The Film Critic. deadline report.
The two previously co-starred in 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a role that earned Pitt his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Pitt also starred in 2009’s Inglourious Basterds and appeared in 1993’s True Romance, which he co-wrote with Tarantino.
The new film, set in Los Angeles and said to be Tarantino’s last film, is set in 1977 and follows a critic working for a fictional publication called Popstar Pages. Director Tarantino said the film was “based on a real man who was never famous, but who used to write movie reviews for pornographic magazines.” Furthermore, he added: “He was so rude. He cursed. He used racial slurs. But his behavior was really funny. He was rude as hell.”
It is unclear what role Pitt will play.
“He wrote about mainstream movies and was a second-rate critic,” Tarantino said. deadline At last year’s Cannes Film Festival. “I think he was a very good critic. He was incredibly cynical. His reviews were somewhere between an early Howard Stern and a movie critic, Travis Bickle. .”
Tarantino previously said the lead role would be “someone in the ballpark at 35 years old” and that it would be “a new leading role for me.”
The screenwriter and director Before He called Pitt “one of the last remaining big-screen movie stars.” Once Upon a Time in Hollywood grossed $377 million worldwide.
Pitt recently led the action thriller “Super Express” and the showbiz drama “Babylon.” He will next be seen opposite George Clooney in Apple’s thriller film Wolfs. He is also co-starring with Javier Bardem and Damson Idris in an untitled F1 movie from Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick.
