Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino is abandoning The Movie Critic, a film that was planned to be his 10th and final movie, according to Deadline. The site reported that Tarantino “simply changed his mind” and is now working on something else.
The Movie Critic was reportedly going to star Brad Pitt. Pitt previously starred in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Inglourious Basterds.
The story was going to focus on a a man who wrote movie reviews for a pornographic magazine in California in the 1970s. Tarantino was apparently inspired by his own personal experiences of loading porn magazines into a vending machine when he was a teenager.
Deadline said Tarantino rewrote the script for The Movie Critic, which led to a delay in production, and later ultimately decided to abandon it altogether and move on.
If this all sounds familiar, it’s because, years ago, Tarantino said he gave up on The Hateful Eight after the script was sent around Hollywood against his wishes. However, Tarantino later returned to the project and released it in 2015; The Hateful Eight was nominated for three Oscars and won one.
As for what Tarantino could make instead of The Movie Critic, Deadline said the filmmaker is “going back to the drawing board to figure out what that final movie will be.” Also unknown is whether or not Tarantino still plans to make just one more movie before calling it quits.
Since his debut with Reservoir Dogs in 1992, Tarantino has made nine films, if you count Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 as a single film. His films have netted him both critical acclaim and controversy, with Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained both earning him Academy Awards for Best Screenplay.
2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Tarantino’s latest film, and it won two Academy Awards.
