Quentin Tarantino Scraps Anticipated 10th and Final Film THE MOVIE CRITIC

Quentin Tarantino has announced that his film The Movie Critic, which was set to be his tenth and final film, is no longer moving forward. The starring role had already been cast with Brad Pitt in the lead, and Tom Cruise was in talks to join the picture as well.

It has been reported that Tarantino “simply changed his mind.” Word is that Tarantino had rewritten his script, which delayed the start of production, then for some reason just decided not to proceed.

This is the biggest surprise to Tarantino fans since years back when Deadline revealed he had shelved The Hateful Eight after he gave a small group of actors his script and one of them shared it with their rep.

Soon it had been copied and the rough draft was shared all over town and online. Tarantino felt betrayed, but he eventually returned to the project after staging a reading for charity and drawing raves for it.

As for The Movie Critic, originally planned to be his 10th and final film, Tarantino has simply had a change of heart and Deadline hears he will not be moving forward with the project.

Sources close to the director said he changed his mind and is going back to the drawing board to figure out what that final movie will be.

The Movie Critic project gained a lot of momentum after the SAG-AFTRA strike ended it was reported that Pitt would be joining the film, with the hope to start shooting it in 2024.

Tarantino previously said at the time his movie was set in California the year of that film’s release, which was 1977, and that it “is based on a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.”

The inspiration goes back to a job Tarantino had as a teen, loading porn magazines into a vending machine and emptying quarters out of the cash dispenser.

He said: “All the other stuff was too skanky to read, but then there was this porno rag that had a really interesting movie page.” There was one critic in particular Tarantino liked, who wrote snarky and smart as the second-string critic.

This sounded like a movie that was going to be personal to the filmmaker, and I was looking forward to his final opus. It sounds like he will still have one, but it just won’t be this particular story.

I am a huge fan of his films, so I know whatever he lands on will be just as good. We will let you know when news hits about the future of Tarantino’s tenth and final film.