The director has long decided to make only ten feature films. His 2019 release, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” was his ninth.
What does Quentin Tarantino think of The Movie Critic, his 2023 film that will be his last?
The plot is known. According to him, it follows “a guy who really existed but never really became famous and who wrote film reviews for a porn magazine,” in the late 1970s. Brad Pitt was scheduled to star in 2025, yet here we are. It doesn’t seem to feature Quentin Tarantino…
“I’m in absolutely no rush to get into production,” the filmmaker stated Monday, Jan. 27, from Utah’s Sundance Film Festival.
The end of films
The Movie Critic, which everyone is talking about, could have been put in the back of the drawer. Tarantino “right now” appears to be “writing a play”. He told Variety: “If it fails, I won’t create a full film. What if it works? It could be my last film.”
The Pulp Fiction filmmaker may be in a rush because he doesn’t like the film industry. He slammed Hollywood’ film exploitation in a rant.
According to him, 2019, the year his latest film, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, was released, is “the last fucking year for films.” Everything has “gotten worse” since “it was already bad in 1997.”
The filmmaker says “the films are played in the cinema for four weeks […] and from the second week you can see them on television” on streaming sites. The cinema-saving activist called these exploitative practices “a ride on a pony carousel”.
Quentin Tarantino’s “challenge” today is theatre. “It’s a real thing to release [a play] and I don’t know if I can do it,” said.
Children First
He finds fulfilment in fatherhood, unlike cinema. To know when his final film would be released, we must follow his two children from his marriage to actress and model Daniella Pick. Their daughter, whose first name they have not revealed, is two and a half years old, and their son, Leo, is five.
At Sundance, Quentin Tarantino said he has “no hurry” to start filming his final feature, preferring to focus on parenthood and writing. The Pulp Fiction director told film critic Elvis Mitchell during the occasion that family is his priority.
I want my son, who turns five next month, to have enduring recollections of being on a movie set, said Tarantino, who flew in from Israel for the debate. “Jumping on a voyage when they’re too young to understand it is not enticing to me,” he remarked. “I want to wait until my son is at least six so he’ll understand and have a lifelong memory.”