After “Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood” was set in 1969, should Quentin Tarantino new and, according to previous statements by the filmmaker, last film from the late 1970s. The industry magazine reported about it for the first time, the other journals have now been able to confirm the message:
Quentin Tarantino just finished the script. Under high security measures, studio executives should be able to read it this week and next week, then compete for the project. Tarantino did something similar with Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, which Sony eventually won. Filming on Tarantino’s last movie is scheduled for the fall of 2023.
But what is the cult director’s latest film “Pulp Fiction” about?
Quentin Tarantino’s Last Movie “The Movie Critic” – About Pauline Kael?
Tarantino seems to be able to hide that as best he can. But the could get from sources that the film, set in the late 1970s, is titled “The film criticand has a female protagonist. could confirm this, but points out that “The Movie Critic” is just a working title, according to their sources, subject to change.
The subject and the time let the also suspect that the legend of the film critic Pauline Kael is the template for the main character. Tarantino adores the influential and controversial critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991. Also of interest in this regard, in 1979, around the time the film could take place, the then 60-year-old Kael briefly gave up her job as a critic to take up a consulting position at the Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures . After realizing that her very clear, blunt statements didn’t get through there and she quickly found herself at odds with studio bosses and filmmakers, she returned to her old job a few months later. It is possible that Kael was already suffering from the first signs of Parkinson’s at that time. She was diagnosed with the disease a few years later.
In the book Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, author Brian Kellow gave a detailed account of this episode in the critic’s life, which I’m sure would make for a good movie.
Quentin Tarantino’s admiration for Kael is well known. He mentions them several times in his latest book “Cinema Speculaction”. In the documentary “What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael”, which unfortunately will never appear outside the Berlinale 2019 and is therefore only available as an import DVD, Tarantino is one of the main interlocutors.
It’s hard to imagine, however, that the Inglourious Basterds director will create a classic biopic for his latest film. However, since Tarantino is known for connecting his various films, “The Movie Critic” could be a kind of continuation of the fictionalized world from “Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood”. Will the critic write about Rick Dalton movies in his latest work? Is Sharon Tate still alive here and has she given us any other big roles? Is it possible that stars like Leonardo DiCaprio or Margot Robbie will return?
“The Movie Critic” – probably in theaters late 2024!
This is all pure speculation on our part. What is quite certain: Quentin Tarantino is making a film with the (working) title “The Movie Critic”, in the coming days and weeks it will be decided which studio will release it and then the casting will start. Shooting will begin in the fall. It can therefore be assumed that “The film critic“About a year later, ie autumn to the end of 2024, comes to the cinema.