The Movie Critic: has Quentin Tarantino’s latest film found its lead actor?

The Movie Critic: has Quentin Tarantino’s latest film found its lead actor?



The film critic : Quentin Tarantino’s latest film

Quentin Tarantino is determined not to make too much of the feature film, unlike directors he admires like John Ford and Howard Hawks. Wanting to leave behind an ideal filmography, the director of pulp Fiction AND Once upon a time… in Hollywood plans to stop after ten projects. The film critic it will therefore be what he considers his tenth and last film.

Once upon a time... in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood ©Sony Pictures Entertainment

This feature film will take place in the late 1970s, in California, and will therefore focus on a film critic. During the 76th Cannes Film Festival, QT talked about his protagonist (via First):

I’m inspired by a boy who really existed, but who never became famous. He wrote movie reviews for a porn magazine. (…) His papers were as if they had been written by a mix between the young Howard Stern and Travis Bickle, if he had been a film critic. Do you see the style of his diary? Transpose it to the cinema. His articles from this porn diary were really funny. He was bad, he used swear words, even racial expressions. And what he was throwing was particularly sharp.

Paul Walter Hauser in the lead role?

Last July, he assured a source close to the production Daily express That the director would like to cast Bruce Willis in a role In The film critic. This source reported in particular Quentin Tarantino’s desire to collaborate again with the actor, suffering from fronto-temporal dementia, after pulp Fiction :

Quentin hasn’t reached out to Bruce’s family yet and will bend completely to their wishes if they say he’s too sick. If so, he plans to try to insert a short clip from one of Bruce’s many films into the film. (…) Quentin wishes to pay homage to him with a brief appearance on the big screen, where he belongs.

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According to the insider Daniele Richtmann, the director would also offer Paul Walter Hauser the lead role in his latest feature film. The latter is famous for wearing the excellent The Richard Jewell case by Clint Eastwoodbut also for I, Tonya, Cruella, BlackKkKlansman as well as the series Blackbird AND Cobra Kai.

The Richard Jewell case
Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) – The Richard Jewell Affair ©Warner Bros.

Although Hollywood is currently engaged in a strike, the actor has not yet confirmed his participation in the project. Filming was originally supposed to begin at the end of the summer The film critic has been postponed due to the strike and should therefore begin at the end of the strike.

Source: Cine Serie

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