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It's been over six years since Quentin Tarantino directed a feature-length film. His 2019 film, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, was a critical darling. It felt like a love letter to a bygone era in the industry, tainted by unforgettable tragedies. The film wasn't as loud or violent as his other projects. Instead, it was calm and comforting, almost like a road trip, for the most part.
A few years down the line, there were rumors of him working on his next film, titled The Movie Critic. It was supposed to be his final directorial feature film, as per his 10-movie plan. There were also some speculations about its plot being connected to the world of his 2019 film. Eventually, the filmmaker abandoned this idea.
In a recent conversation on The Church of Tarantino podcast, he revealed the reason behind not going ahead with The Movie Critic as his tenth and final film.
“The thing about ‘The Movie Critic’ is I really, really like it. 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?'," the director asked himself.
He further added,
"Who wants to see a TV show about a f**king movie critic? Who wants to see a movie called ‘The Movie Critic’? That was the test. If I can actually make a movie or a TV show about someone who actually watches movies interesting, that is an accomplishment. And I think I did that.”
Quentin Tarantino brings back Cliff Booth to the big screen, but not as a director
Quentin Tarantino's next feature film, as a writer, will be a follow-up to his 2019 drama set in late 1960s' LA. Back then, Leonardo DiCaprio's "has-been" Hollywood star, Rick Dalton, was the focus of the story, unlike the new film, which is expected to trace the origins of his stunt double, driven, and war veteran Cliff Booth.
Brad Pitt will reprise this role, in a script by Quentin Tarantino, for a film being directed by David Fincher. It will bring back the world established in Tarantino's earlier film. However, despite being a writer and producer, he decided not to direct it because he wanted to explore something new with his last film, instead of doing more or less what he had already done.
The Pulp Fiction director had similar reasons for abandoning The Movie Critic as his final movie. He took it as a challenge to turn "the most boring profession in the world" into something exciting through his script.
Still, there were a few more reasons Quentin Tarantino might have decided not to direct a script based on that idea. In the aforementioned podcast, he said,
“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?'"
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He explained further:
"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.”
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