Academy Award-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino (“The Hateful Eight,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “Pulp Fiction”) looks to be prepping his last movie as a filmmaker. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino is readying what is said to be the “final” film of his career.
Tarantino has reportedly already written a script for the film, titled “The Movie Critic,” and he’s expected to direct the film starting in the fall.
Quentin Tarantino To Direct Final Feature Later This Fall
Story details on the feature are currently kept secret. However, the story is reportedly set in late 1970s Los Angeles, and it will feature a female lead.
THR notes that the setting and title of the story suggest the film could follow the story of real-life film critic Pauline Kael, who passed away in 2001. Besides her work as a film critic, Kael was also a prolific writer and novelist. She was notorious for some of her bitter fights with both editors and filmmakers in Hollywood. Additionally, there was a period in the late 1970s when she worked as a consultant for Paramount Pictures at the request of actor Warren Beatty. Tarantino has an established deep respect for Kael, and the setting appears to line up with a movie about her or inspired by her life.
Additionally, THR reports that Tarantino’s project is not currently set up at any studio. It’s expected to go out to studios and buyers possibly as early as this week. One frontrunner is Sony Pictures, where Tarantino is said to have a good relationship with chairman Tom Rothman.
Sony previously distributed Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” The film was both a financial and critical hit for the studio, grossing $377 million worldwide off of a $90 million budget. It also earned costar Brad Pitt an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. It also won another Academy Award for Best Achievement in Production Design.
For “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Sony reportedly gave Tarantino a unique deal in which the copyright of the film will revert to the director over time.
Tarantino has said in the past that he had a limited number of movies he wanted to make, aspiring to make either 10 films or retire by age 60. The filmmaker will turn 60 later this month. In 2021, he also published his first novel, which was the novelization of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Tarantino made his directorial debut in 1992 with the crime film “Reservoir Dogs.” He followed that up with the box office hit “Pulp Fiction” in 1994, which earned him his first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, which he shared with co-writer Roger Avary. His other feature film credits include “Jackie Brown,” “Kill Bill: Vol. 1,” “Kill Bill: Vol. 2,” and “Django Unchained.”
Besides writing his own films, Tarantino has also written a number of other films throughout his career, including the 1993 Tony Scott crime film “True Romance,” the 1996 Robert Rodriguez vampire thriller “From Dusk Till Dawn,” and Oliver Stone’s 1994 film “Natural Born Killers.”
More information about Tarantino’s next project should be revealed later on.
