Quentin Tarantino has reportedly abandoned plans for The Critic, his tenth and final film.
Deadline reported Thursday that an anonymous source close to Tarantino confirmed the news, reporting that Tarantino “simply changed his mind” about making “The Critic” and would “re- Start working on the final film.”
The 61-year-old director has long said that he will only make 10 films before retiring. He stated that he considered “Bill Bill” to be a movie, even though it was split into two parts, and that he did not consider his first project, an amateur film titled “My Best Friend’s Birthday” ( never issued) are included in the total.
“The Critic” was originally slated to be his tenth film, starring Brad Pitt, and inspired by Tarantino’s job as a teenager: loading pornographic magazines into vending machines.
Tarantino told Deadline in 2023, “All the other stuff was too filthy to read, but then there was a porn film that had a very interesting movie page.” He said the film “is based on a The guy who really lived but never really lived” was famous, and he used to write movie reviews for porn magazines…you know, he was very rude. he cursed. He used racial slurs. But his ramblings are so funny. He was just so rude.
“He was writing about mainstream movies, and he was a second-tier critic,” Tarantino later said of his unnamed inspiration. “I think he’s a very good critic. He’s very cynical. His reviews are somewhere between early Howard Stern and Travis Bickle, if he were a film critic.
Tarantino confirmed that “The Critic” will be set in California in 1977, and that the film critic will work for a fictional publication called “Pop Star Page.” He also said he was looking for a “35-year-old leader in the ballpark” and a “new leader to me.”
Pitt is rumored to be reprising his Once Upon a Time Hollywood role from Cliff Booth, a big fan of Tarantino’s film adaptation.
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Production on the film was previously delayed due to Tarantino’s decision to rewrite the script.
Tarantino has returned to projects before after shelving them: In 2014, he temporarily canceled plans to film The Hateful Eight when he shared a draft of the film’s script with a small group of actors and it leaked online. After calling it a “betrayal” and saying “I don’t want to do this,” The Hateful Eight was eventually produced and released in 2015.
