Quentin Tarantino has reportedly deserted his plans for The Film Critic, the movie that was to be his tenth and remaining venture.
Deadline reported on Thursday that an nameless supply near Tarantino had confirmed the information, reporting that Tarantino had “merely modified his thoughts” about making The Film Critic and can be “going again to the drafting board to determine what that remaining film shall be”.
The 61-year-old director has lengthy mentioned he would solely make 10 movies earlier than retiring. He has mentioned that he considers Kill Invoice to be one movie, though it was cut up into two elements, and that he doesn’t rely his first venture, an amateur film called My Best Friend’s Birthday that was by no means launched, in the direction of the entire.
The Film Critic, which was set to be his tenth movie and would star Brad Pitt, was impressed by Tarantino’s job as a young person: loading porn magazines right into a merchandising machine.
“All the opposite stuff was too skanky to learn, however then there was this porno rag that had a very attention-grabbing film web page,” Tarantino told Deadline in 2023. He mentioned the movie “relies on a man who actually lived however was by no means actually well-known, and he used to jot down film evaluations for a porno rag … He was very impolite, you already know. He cursed. He used racial slurs. However his shit was actually humorous. He was as impolite as hell.”
“He wrote about mainstream motion pictures and he was the second-string critic,” Tarantino later mentioned, of his unnamed inspiration. “I feel he was an excellent critic. He was cynical as hell. His evaluations had been a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle may be if he had been a movie critic.”
The Film Critic was to be set in California in 1977 and the critic can be working for a fictional publication referred to as The Popstar Pages, Tarantino had confirmed. He additionally mentioned he was on the lookout for a lead “within the 35-year-old ball park” and “a brand new main man for me”.
It had been rumoured that Pitt would play his As soon as Upon a Time … in Hollywood character Cliff Sales space, who was a giant film fan in Tarantino’s novelisation of the movie.
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Manufacturing on the movie was beforehand delayed when Tarantino determined to rewrite the script.
Tarantino has beforehand returned to tasks after shelving them: in 2014 he quickly cancelled his plans to make The Hateful Eight when a tough draft of the movie’s script leaked on-line after he shared it with a small group of actors. After calling this a “betrayal” and saying “I’ve no need to make it”, The Hateful Eight was ultimately made and launched in 2015.