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Quentin Tarantino Drops ‘The Movie Critic’ As His Final Film

Posted on 4/17/24 at 6:40 pm
Posted by RLDSC FAN
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 6:40 pm
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EXCLUSIVE: Quentin Tarantino’s movies are always full of surprises, and here is one about The Movie Critic we did not expect. Deadline can reveal that Tarantino has dropped the film as his 10th and final project. He simply changed his mind, Deadline has been told.

Tarantino was going to have Brad Pitt as the principal star, which would have marked their third teaming after Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. There were rumors that many from the casts of his past films might take part, and Sony was preparing to make the film after doing such a superb job on the last one.

Word is that Tarantino had rewritten his script, which delayed the start of production. But this is his 10th and final film, and Tarantino simply decided The Movie Critic will not be it.

This is the biggest surprise to Tarantino fans since years back when Deadline revealed he had shelved The Hateful Eight after he gave a small group of actors his script and one of them shared it with their rep. Soon it had been copied and the rough draft was shared all over town and online. Tarantino felt betrayed, but he eventually returned to the project after staging a reading for charity and drawing raves for it.



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Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 6:46 pm to
Just make it or don’t. But I’m tired of the hype of his “final film.” Just make movies you want and don’t ones you don’t, Quentin.

Didn’t he supposedly want to do some sort of Star Trek movie at one point as well? Or am I thinking of someone else?

And don’t get me wrong, I love most of QT’s movies so whatever his next film is I’ll definitely watch it. I just don’t think he needs to be up on this pedestal that people always seem to put him on.
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
116786 posts
Posted on 4/17/24 at 6:49 pm to
Yeah I just read that.

Interesting. If he just doesn’t think it’s right, it’s not right.

I wasn’t in love with the concept personally
Posted by dawgfan24348
Member since Oct 2011
49438 posts
Posted on 4/17/24 at 7:56 pm to
Someone must have informed him about Only Fans and now it’ll just be a 4 hour long black and white Only Fans movie about feet
Posted by Corso
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2020
10958 posts
Posted on 4/17/24 at 9:59 pm to
I hope whatever his final film is it doesn't have Brad Pitt as the lead
Posted by Big Fat Guy
Member since Nov 2020
212 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 3:08 am to
I think this is a good thing / wise move on QT's part. The description of The Movie Critic made me think of those parts in Once Upon a Time where he edited DiCaprio into old movies and TV shows, or the parts on the set of movies and TV shows, or the parts with characters watching movies in theaters. He just did a movie like that, Once Upon a Time is already a love letter to movies and Hollywood. Feel like QT should go out on an epic bang, not another meta alternate history piece about movies.

I could be wrong, but I thought I heard QT floating the idea of returning to the crime genre for his final film, a la Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. This would make sense, kinda poetic, go out the way you came in.

Whatever QT does, I hope it's a giant FU to PC and woke SJWs in form, language and content. Once Upon a Time was already this way, I hope he takes it even further. Must be heartbreaking for QT to see what has happened to movies and pop culture since he first blazed onto the scene just over thirty years ago. Now being painted as a villain, his entire oeuvre under threat of being retroactively canceled as the work of a male chauvinist pig and racist dinosaur through the lens of this woke cultural revolution. Burn it all down and drop the mic on the way out, QT.
Posted by rebelrouser
Columbia, SC
Member since Feb 2013
10780 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:14 am to
I was looking forward to it, but if he isn't feeling the magic it is best to walk away. Like someone else said it sounded kind of like an extension to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which may not have been a good thing especially if it ends up being his last. I would like to see another crime movie. Dig into the humongous catalogue of Donald E. Westlake and his pen name Richard Stark. A good Dortmunder story staring George Clooney as Dortmunder would be great. Clooney is old enough now and can gain a little spare tire etc. for the role. The Jugger by Richard Stark is another.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
66607 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:20 am to
Should make a Pulp fiction prequel
Posted by scottydoesntknow
Member since Nov 2023
2318 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 9:13 am to
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Tarantino was going to have Brad Pitt as the principal star, which would have marked their third teaming after Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. There were rumors that many from the casts of his past films might take part, and Sony was preparing to make the film after doing such a superb job on the last one.


Guess they are just pretending True Romance doesnt exist now
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22524 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 9:35 am to
Well, it was a dumb idea on multiple levels. Does anyone really believe this would be his last film? That’s like bands and farewell/retirement tours. Does anyone want his last film to be a bomb about a movie critic?
Posted by Duzz
Houston
Member since Feb 2008
9975 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:53 am to
Quetin knows whats good for him. If he make a movie lambasting movie critics they would destroy that movie and his legacy. Better to throw them a softball.
Posted by RLDSC FAN
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Member since Nov 2008
51868 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 4:01 pm to
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Inside the messy, late-hour collapse of the director’s mysterious final feature amid wild script and casting rumors (Tom Cruise?) and a fully on-board Sony Pictures.

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Those who know Tarantino (who had no comment for this story) aren’t saying precisely why he shelved the film, only that he had grown more excited by other ideas. “He has a lot of scripts that he’s thrown away,” says one longtime talent representative familiar with Tarantino’s thinking. The filmmaker had also previously emphasized that he liked the idea of “going out on top,” which perhaps added legacy-preserving pressure to his selection of a final film. Tarantino and Sony still have every intention of partnering on whichever project the filmmaker makes instead. “He is a pure artist,” says a source close to the filmmaker, who noted his nine movies have all been original stories in an era rife with familiar IP franchises (with one caveat — Jackie Brown was adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel). 


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