Director Quentin Tarantino has reportedly abandoned plans for The Film Critic, which was to be his 10th and final project.
Deadline reported on Thursday that an anonymous source close to Tarantino confirmed the news, saying that Tarantino “just changed his mind” about making The Film Critic and that he was “not sure what the final film will look like.” I’m going to go back to the drawing board to consider what will happen.” ”.
The 61-year-old director has long said he would only make 10 films before retiring. He has said that although Kill Bill is divided into his two parts, he considers it one movie and does not count it among his first projects. Amateur film called “My Best Friend’s Birthday” What was not released against the total.
The Movie Critic, scheduled to be Tarantino’s 10th film and starring Brad Pitt, was inspired by Tarantino’s job as a teenager, stuffing pornographic magazines into vending machines. That’s what I got.
“Everything else was too vulgar to read, but there was a porn magazine with a very interesting movie page.” Tarantino told Deadline 2023. He said the film was “based on a real man who was never famous, and he used to write movie reviews for pornographic magazines…He was so rude. He cursed. He was a man who used to write movie reviews for porn magazines… He used a racial slur. But his behavior was really funny. He was rude as hell.”
“He was writing about mainstream movies and was a second-rate critic,” Tarantino later said of his anonymous inspiration. “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 confirmed that The Film Critic will be set in California in 1977, and that the film critic will work for a fictional publication called Popstar Pages. He also said he was “35 years old in the ballpark” and was looking for a “new leader for me.”
In Tarantino’s novel, it was rumored that Pitt would play Cliff Booth, a character from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, of whom Pitt was a huge fan of the movie.
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Production on the film was previously postponed when Tarantino decided to rewrite the script.
Tarantino has previously returned to projects after shelving them. In 2014, production plans for The Hateful Eight were suspended after a draft of the film’s script was leaked online. After he shared it with a small group of actors,. Despite calling this a “betrayal” and saying “I had no intention of making it,” “The Hateful Eight” was eventually made and released in 2015.
