Quentin Tarantino may still only make 10 films into 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 canceled the project, which it was reported in February that Brad Pitt would be attached to star 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, which delayed the start of production, although now that won’t entirely happen.
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 10 movies in his career, but his last movie won’t be the project he’s been working on lately, The Movie Critic
The 61-year-old director canceled the project, which it was reported in February that Brad Pitt would be attached to star in their third film project together.
QT has said for years that he plans to retire after his 10th film, which apparently still seems to be the plan, but not with The Movie Critic.
There were other reports of The Hollywood Reporter which claimed that the writer-director’s rewrites changed the film drastically.
The story would take place in Los Angeles in 1977 and follow the main character, inspired by both a real-life film critic and his first job as a teenager, stocking porn magazines in vending machines.
QT told Deadline at Cannes last year that the film “is based on a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porn magazine.”
“All the rest of the material was too vulgar to read, but then there was that porn rag that had a really interesting movie page,” he added.
There were other reports that characters from previous Tarantino films would finally appear in The Movie Critic.
THR reports that QT’s most recent rewrites were set to bring Pitt back as Cliff Booth, his stunt character from 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Tarantino also planned to film just one day in August, so the project could get a $20.5 million California tax credit, before filming began fully in early 2025.
QT has said for years that he plans to retire after his 10th film, which apparently still seems to be the plan, but not with The Movie Critic.
QT told Deadline at Cannes last year that the film “is based on a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porn newspaper.”
“The rest of the material was too vulgar to read, but then there was this porn magazine that had a really interesting movie page,” he added.
THR reports that QT’s most recent rewrites were set to bring Pitt back as Cliff Booth, his stunt character from 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
This wouldn’t be the first time Tarantino has abruptly canceled a film project.
In early 2014, it was revealed that Tarantino was pulling 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 subsequently shared around town, causing Tarantino to pull the plug.
He later recovered after a live reading for charity generated rave reviews, prompting him to begin production, and the film was released in 2015.
There were a few other projects Tarantino has talked about that never came to fruition, such as the oft-rumored Vega Brothers project, which would have starred Michael Madsen as Vic Vega from 1992’s Reservoir Dogs and John Travolta as Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction from 1994.
At one point he was also developing an R-rated Star Trek project for Paramount, although that also didn’t move forward.