Quentin Tarantino has long held that he only plans to helm 10 total movies as director, and new details have emerged surrounding what could be his final filmic undertaking.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino has written a script for a feature titled The Movie Critic, a project he'll begin directing this fall. The outlet cites sources that say it will be billed as the director's final film, and will be "set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its centre."
THR suggests that The Movie Critic could focus on the life and work of the late American film critic, writer and essayist Pauline Kael. Roger Ebert has been quoted as saying that Kael "had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades."
Tarantino has previously expressed the belief that as directors age, the quality of their output suffers. Speaking with Playboy in 2012, he explained, "I want to stop at a certain point. Directors don't get better as they get older. Usually the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end. I am all about my filmography, and one bad film f—s up three good ones. I don't want that bad, out-of-touch comedy in my filmography, the movie that makes people think, 'Oh man, he still thinks it's 20 years ago.' When directors get out-of-date, it's not pretty."
At a 2015 roundtable discussion hosted by THR, Tarantino said of his post-cinema plans, "What I want to do basically is I want to write novels and I want to write theatre and I want to direct theatre."
The Movie Critic would follow Tarantino's ninth film, 2019's Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. The director has previously expressed that he considers 2003's Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2004 sequel Kill Bill: Volume 2 to be a single production.
"Technically we released it as two movies, and there is a closing and an opening credits [on each movie]," he explained on the CinemaBlend podcast in 2019. "But I made it as one movie and I wrote it as one movie, [so it's one movie]."
Tarantino has authored two books after signing a publishing deal in 2020. In 2021, the director released Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel, based on his film, and followed that with last year's Cinema Speculation, collecting essays, reviews and personal writing.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino has written a script for a feature titled The Movie Critic, a project he'll begin directing this fall. The outlet cites sources that say it will be billed as the director's final film, and will be "set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its centre."
THR suggests that The Movie Critic could focus on the life and work of the late American film critic, writer and essayist Pauline Kael. Roger Ebert has been quoted as saying that Kael "had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades."
Tarantino has previously expressed the belief that as directors age, the quality of their output suffers. Speaking with Playboy in 2012, he explained, "I want to stop at a certain point. Directors don't get better as they get older. Usually the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end. I am all about my filmography, and one bad film f—s up three good ones. I don't want that bad, out-of-touch comedy in my filmography, the movie that makes people think, 'Oh man, he still thinks it's 20 years ago.' When directors get out-of-date, it's not pretty."
At a 2015 roundtable discussion hosted by THR, Tarantino said of his post-cinema plans, "What I want to do basically is I want to write novels and I want to write theatre and I want to direct theatre."
The Movie Critic would follow Tarantino's ninth film, 2019's Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. The director has previously expressed that he considers 2003's Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2004 sequel Kill Bill: Volume 2 to be a single production.
"Technically we released it as two movies, and there is a closing and an opening credits [on each movie]," he explained on the CinemaBlend podcast in 2019. "But I made it as one movie and I wrote it as one movie, [so it's one movie]."
Tarantino has authored two books after signing a publishing deal in 2020. In 2021, the director released Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel, based on his film, and followed that with last year's Cinema Speculation, collecting essays, reviews and personal writing.
