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Quentin Tarantino has been directing for over three decades but so far, he has only made nine films. The critically acclaimed filmmaker had long maintained his tenth film would be his last, and it was supposed to be a drama film titled The Movie Critic.
The film was supposed to start production in California sometime last year. However, the plans for The Movie Critic have been scrapped. Over a year after the announcement, Tarantino finally explained why he dropped the project during an appearance on The Church of Tarantino podcast.
The two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker explained that he “was very happy” with what he had originally written. The plans were for an eight-part series which was later translated into a feature-length script. However, Tarantino admitted he “wasn’t really that excited” when they got close to pre-production.
“No one’s waiting for this thing per se. I mean, I can do it whenever I want,” he explained. “I mean, it’s already written. So OK, let me just not start it right now. Let me try writing it as a movie, and let me see if it’s better that way. And I was like, ‘Oh, OK, no, I think this is going to be the movie.’ And then it wasn’t. I pulled the plug on it. And the reason I pulled the plug, it’s a little crazy.“
The filmmaker admitted he “really, really likes” the project, but “there was a challenge that I gave to myself when I did it. Can I take the most boring profession in the world and make it an interesting movie?”
He highlighted, “Every Tarantino title promises so much, except The Movie Critic. Who wants to see a TV show about a f***ing movie critic? Who wants to see a movie called The Movie Critic?” He added, “If I can actually make a movie or a TV show about somebody who watches movies interesting, that is an accomplishment.”
At some point, Brad Pitt was attached to star in the film. The filmmaker clarified the show was a “spiritual sequel” to Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood because “far as they take place in the same world and they take place in the same town. But there were no crossover characters. Cliff Booth was never in The Movie Critic. That’s all a bunch of bull***t. That never was the case ever, ever, ever.”
“I wasn’t really excited about dramatizing what I wrote when I was in pre-production, partly because I’m using the skillset that I learned from Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood [of] How are we going to turn Los Angeles into the Hollywood of 1969 without using CGI?’ “
“It was something we had to pull off. We had to achieve it. It wasn’t for sure that we could do it. … The Movie Critic, there was nothing to figure out. I already kind of knew, more or less, how to turn L.A. into an older time. It was too much like the last one.”
What’s Next for Quentin Tarantino?
Cliff Booth drives to pick up Rick in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Image via Sony Pictures
The filmmaker explained early this year at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival that he was in “no hurry” to make his final film. Instead, he decided to work on a stage play, set to open on the West End in London in 2026. He has also written the script for the Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood spinoff following Pitt’s character, The Adventures of Cliff Booth.
The upcoming film is set eight years after the events of the 2019 film. Although it features a screenplay by Tarantino, the filmmaker is not at the helm of the film, leaving the way open for a Se7en reunion between David Fincher and Pitt. The sequel started filming in late July.
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