Quentin Tarantino will no longer film The Movie Critic: what's happening?

It was March 15, 2023 when we gave you the news that Quentin Tarantino he would soon get to work on his tenth and final film behind the camera: The Movie Critica film inspired by the figure of Jim Sheldon, a film critic who really existed. According to publications such as Variety and Deadline, however, it seems that Tarantino has chosen not to continue with his intention, even if no one understands why. The first time Quentin Tarantino talked about The Movie Critic it was during the last Cannes Film Festival, when he admitted that he was working on the script. And then?

Leaving aside the fact that the director had not revealed any details about the plot – many newspapers had said that the film would be set in Los Angeles in the seventies and would have a famous film critic at the center of the story, even if at the beginning it seemed that it was about Pauline Kaelthe famous flagship brand of New Yorker who in 1979 also obtained a brief position as a consultant for Paramount Pictures -, however, we were all fairly certain that Tarantino would complete his projectalso because it seemed that everything was organised.

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Again according to what was reported in the newspapers, Quentin Tarantino should have started filming as early as August, not to mention that the film could have also welcomed back into the cast Brad Pitt, ready to reprise the role of Cliff Booth, one of the protagonists of Tarantino's latest film, Once upon a time in Hollywood. At the moment it is not known why the director abandoned the project, nor if he has another one in the works. We are not sure, therefore, whether his career as a director is already over or he is waiting for a new idea to get to work on.: everything is suspended in a bubble of uncertainty which, at least for the moment, the person concerned has chosen not to break.