Quentin Tarantino may still only make ten films in his career, but his last film won’t be the project he’s been working on lately: The Movie Critic.
The 61-year-old director has pulled the plug on the project, which was reported in February to star Brad Pitt in their third film project together.
Now Deadline reports that Tarantino has simply “changed his mind” about the project and will not be moving forward with it.
Tarantino had reportedly rewritten the script, delaying the start of production, but now that’s not quite happening.
The filmmaker is said to have gone ‘back to the drawing board’ to try to figure out what his tenth and final film would be.
Quentin Tarantino may still only make ten films in his career, but his last film won’t be the project he’s been working on lately, The Movie Critic
The 61-year-old director has pulled the plug on the project, which was reported in February to star Brad Pitt in their third film project together.
QT has been saying for years that he plans to retire after his tenth film, which apparently still seems to be the plan, just not at The Movie Critic.
There were other reports of it The Hollywood Reporter who claimed that the writer-director’s rewrites changed the film quite drastically.
The story would be set in 1977 Los Angeles and follow the title character, inspired by both a real-life film critic and his first job as a teenager, putting porn magazines into vending machines.
QT told Deadline at Cannes last year that the film is “based on a guy who really lived, but never really became famous, and he wrote movie reviews for a porn rag.”
“Everything else was too sloppy to read, but then there was a porn magazine with a really interesting movie page,” he added.
There were other reports that characters from Tarantino’s previous films would eventually appear in The Movie Critic.
THR reports that QT’s latest rewrites would bring back Pitt as Cliff Booth, his stuntman character from 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Tarantino also planned to film for just one day in August so that the project could receive a $20.5 million California Tax Credit before filming fully begins in early 2025.
QT has been saying for years that he plans to retire after his tenth film, which apparently still seems to be the plan, just not at The Movie Critic
QT told Deadline at Cannes last year that the film is “based on a guy who really lived, but never really became famous, and he wrote movie reviews for a porn rag.”
“Everything else was too sloppy to read, but then there was a porn magazine with a very interesting movie page,” he added.
THR reports that QT’s latest rewrites would bring back Pitt as Cliff Booth, his stuntman character from 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
It wouldn’t be the first time that Tarantino has abruptly pulled the plug on a film project.
In early 2014, it was revealed that Tarantino pulled the plug on The Hateful Eight after sending the script to a small group of trusted actors.
One of those actors shared the script with his agent, and it was then shared across the city, causing Tarantino to pull the plug.
He later dropped by after a live charity reading earned rave reviews, which led to it going into production, and the film was released in 2015.
There were a few other projects that Tarantino fussed about that never materialized, like the oft-rumored Vega Brothers project that would have starred Michael Madsen as Vic Vega from 1992’s Reservoir Dogs and John Travolta as Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction 1994.
He was also at one point developing an R-rated Star Trek project for Paramount, but that too never progressed.