Quentin Tarantino planned to bring back classic characters for ‘The Movie Critic’
After confirming that he had cancelled plans to make his tenth feature film, The Movie Critic, details have emerged regarding what Quentin Tarantino’s final movie would have been about.
With a name like The Movie Critic, upon its announcement, many fans thought the film would be about the celebrated industry journalist Pauline Kael, who had a significant impact on Tarantino’s formative years, but as time passed, this concept evolved.
Brad Pitt was then thought to be involved in a story about “a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag,” before the director also canned this concept.
As described by The Hollywood Reporter, The Movie Critic would have taken Tarantino’s obsessive meta-universe to new levels, bringing back many of his most iconic characters from his previous films to appear in one “movie within a movie”. Actors from his past filmography were also set to return, including Pitt, Margot Robbie and Jamie Foxx, alongside Tom Cruise, who was heavily rumoured to be taking part.
A proposed off-shoot of this concept would have also explored a movie theatre which housed characters from Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Django Unchained and all of Tarantino’s other films, who would have interacted with a younger version of Tarantino.
As one talent representative close to the director stated, “He has a lot of scripts that he’s thrown away”.
Tarantino has long maintained that he will only make ten movies in order to preserve his cinematic legacy and go out on top of his game rather than steadily decrease in quality. In order to fit into this specific personal demand, his two Kill Bill movies are considered to be one film in the opinion of the director.
Previously, while discussing his final project, the legendary director even discussed a sequel to the beloved Kill Bill series as his possible last cinematic move.
“I think it’s just revisiting the characters twenty years later and just imagining the Bride and her daughter, Bebe, having 20 years of peace, and then that peace is shattered,” Tarantino said in an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. “And now The Bride and Bebe are on the run, and just the idea of being able to cast Uma [Thurman] and cast her daughter Maya [Hawke] in the thing would be fucking exciting.”
While we await whatever Tarantino’s next movie will be, take a look at the trailer for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood below.
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