Quentin Tarantino he has stated on several occasions that his next film, number 10 of his career, would be his last. In that sense, The Hollywood Reporter has reported that the feature film that will put an end to his filmography has already been written, and will begin shooting this year.
with the title of “The Movie Critic” has been described as the story of a film critic set in Los Angeles in the 1970s. According to the media, the story could be based on the figure of the stabbing Pauline Kael, one of the most influential film critics of all time.
Kael’s legendary reviews in the weekly The New Yorker They were the most feared in the film industry. His look was always against the general feeling of the rest of the media and at some point satirized, as happened in the film “All That Jazz” of Bob Fosse. Tarantino has always expressed her admiration for her, and the period would coincide with the time in which the specialist worked as a consultant for paramount at the behest of Warren Beatty.
It is not yet known if the treatment of the script will be focused on a biopic or will take creative and narrative licenses, as it did with the life of Sharon Tatewife of the controversial film director Roman Polanskiresponsible for films such as “Rosemary’s Baby”, “Chinatown” and “The Pianist”. A few years ago the figure of Kael, who died in 2001, returned to media memory after the premiere of the film David Fincher’s “Mank” that recalled his complaint, in which he pointed to Orson Welles like who stole the script “Citizen Kane” to the scriptwriter Hermann Mankiewicz.
The filmmaker has long maintained that he wanted to end his career after directing 10 films or retire when he was 60. Tarantino has nine feature films to his credit, considering the two volumes of Kill Bill like one movie. And he also hit his sixtieth year a couple of weeks ago.
“I want to stop at a certain point. Directors don’t get better as they get older. Usually the worst movies in his filmography are the last four, at the end of his career. I am my filmography, and a bad movie fucks up three good ones. I don’t want that bad, out-of-place comedy in my filmography, the movie that makes people think, ‘Oh man, he still thinks he’s the same as he was 20 years ago.’ When directors become obsolete, it’s not pretty,” the filmmaker said in 2012.
Director of “Pulp Fiction” and “Inglourious Basterds” He has not ruled out continuing his work in television series or expanding into other media such as theater or literature. In 2021, the prolific filmmaker published his first novel, an adaptation of the screenplay for “Once upon a time in… Hollywood.”
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