Did Quentin Tarantino really abandon his last film? This statement gives hope

Quentin Tarantino has backed out of his latest feature film, The Movie Critic with Brad Pitt. The news broke last April and the reasons are still shrouded in mystery at the time of writing.

Why this abandonment?

Quentin Tarantino has not yet spoken about this topic, but seriously The Hollywood Reporter conducted an investigation to find out. Essentially, the magazine suggests that the filmmaker had too many doubts about the project.

An anonymous source says he’s never seen Quentin Tarantino spend so much time rewriting and backtracking on a project. Others claim that he was enthusiastic about another project that would motivate him even more than the one currently underway. Therefore, the director is already working on his new work.

A new comforting announcement?

A new announcement today gives some hope to anyone eagerly awaiting the director’s 10th and final project.

On the occasion of the CineEurope convention which is currently underway, Sony Pictures held a presentation during which international distribution president Stephen O’Dell indicated that he hopes to work with the filmmaker again. “We hope that Tarantino will make his last film with us“, he said.

last hope

This isn’t the first time Tarantino has announced a movie before deciding to star as a sea serpent in Kill Bill 3.

In January 2014, the director announced that the script for his western The Dirty Eight had been completed. A few days later, he told the site Deadline that he refused to direct the film because his script was leaked on the Internet.

At that time, the director told the media:I am very, very depressed. I had finished the first draft of the script and was not going to produce it for another year. I entrusted it to six people and it seems to have gone public.

I will not make this film. I’m going to publish the script and so far it is. I gave it to six people, and if I can’t trust them, I don’t want to do it. I have enough. I’m going to move“.

Still two years later, the film Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Damian Bichir and Bruce Dern.

Maybe Quentin Tarantino will finally change his mind once again and decide to direct the movie critic. To be continued !

What was the film critic supposed to be about?

Film Critic , announced in March 2023, was to take place in 1977 Los Angeles and follow a film critic named Jim Sheldon. A nickname Tarantino himself used when writing for the New Beverly movie site, the theater he now owns in Los Angeles.

A fierce and irreverent critic who worked for the porn magazine The Popstar Pages, the character was described by Tarantino as “the Travis Bick of film criticism”, referring to the Taxi Driver character played by De Niro in 1976.