New details have emerged aboutQuentin Tarantino’s canceled final film,The Movie Critic,and reports suggest the film would have been a meta-style send off featuring characters from the director’s previous work. Tarantino’s 10-project filmography has become something of a Hollywood legend, and fans of the director are desperate to see what the auteur’s final movie will be.
A new report fromThe Hollywood Reporter, providing accounts from multiple sources attached to the project, has shed light on new details surrounding the canceled film’s plot and the reason for its shelving. The most exciting prospect is thatThe Movie Criticmight have featured various characters from Tarantino’s previous films, including Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood),John Travolta’s Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction), Jamie Foxx’s Django (Django: Unchained), and Margot Robbie’s iteration of Sharon Tate (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood).
“The Movie Criticmight have featured various characters from Tarantino’s previous films.”
Other reports suggested thatTom Cruise, who almost starred inOnce Upon a Time… in Hollywood(before scheduling conflicts forced him to pull out) would finally team up with Tarantino inThe Movie Critic. Alternatively, it was suggested thatThe Movie Criticwould have seen the leading character - a film critic writing for a fictional porno magazine in the ’70s - interact with a young wannabe filmmaker. The moment would symbolize Tarantino’s own time working as an usher at a Torrence porn theater at 16 years old.
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Thetrue reason behindThe Movie Critic’s cancelationis currently unknown, although THR’s report says sources close to Tarantino suggest that the director simply became unhappy with producing the movie as his final cinematic outing. “I don’t recall him rewriting so much and pushing a start date once he had a movie in mind,” said one agency partner in the report.
So, What Next for Quentin Tarantino?
Speculation around Quentin Tarantino’s next movie is once again up in the air, with no concrete details being released about the new project. This has led to intense speculation online surrounding Tarantino’s final movie in the director’s chair.
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The most popular opinion is that Tarantino’s final film will be a sequel (or threequel) to one of his popular movies.Kill Bill: Volume 3has been thrown around social media endlessly sinceThe Movie Criticwas officially canceled on April 16. So too hasDjango 2, as well as a sequel toInglourious Basterds.
Other fans believe the final film will see Tarantino bring one of his previously discussed ideas to life.Tarantino was previously attached to direct aStar Trekmoviein 2017, after franchise producer J.J. Abrams accepted the director’s pitch. However, that project fell through, with reports claiming the director simply didn’t want the project to be his final film. Quentin Tarantino also tried making a lot of superhero movies throughout the early phases of his career. Some fans believe that the director’s final movie will finally see a Tarantino-helmed superhero blockbuster come to life. Whatever his final movie is, it will likely be an original idea. All of Tarantino’s movies, aside fromJackie Brown, have come from the director’s own, original scripts.
