Quentin Tarantino Scraps ‘The Movie Critic’ as His Final Film
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy Editor Quentin Tarantino is no longer planning to make “The Movie Critic,” which he had earlier said would be his final film as a director.
It was confirmed Wednesday that the director had given the project a thumbs down. “The Movie Critic” would have been Tarantino’s tenth feature film, but sources say he won’t be looking to rewrite the script or revive the project, but will instead move on to something new.
Brad Pitt had been cast in a lead role in the film that Tarantino had said was at one point about a small-time movie critic who wrote smart reviews for a porn magazine, and was set in 1977.
It was also rumored that Pitt would play some form of his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” character Cliff Booth, who in Tarantino’s novelization of the story was a big movie fan.
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