Quentin Tarantino No Longer Developing ‘The Movie Critic’, Which Would Have Featured Brad Pitt Back As Cliff Booth
Here is a shocking one. A year after it was reported that Quentin Tarantino had scripted his tenth and final film, The Movie Critic, and a few months after the project started to gain some momentum with Brad Pitt reportedly in talks to return and rumors about Tom Cruise swirling, Deadline has confirmed that Tarantino has had a change of heart and will no longer make the film.
Details on what happened are unclear at the moment, and someone at some point will explain it. But from what we can gather, it seems like Tarantino went back to the script last year and started heavily rewriting it. That alone had delayed the start of production, even putting the Hollywood strikes aside.
That rewriting process seems like the key here, as according to The Hollywood Reporter it was then that the project transformed into a vehicle for Brad Pitt to return as Cliff Booth. At the moment we don’t know how the two storylines would coexist, and THR can’t even confirm if the film would have been a prequel or a 1970s-set sequel to Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood. Was Cliff Booth going to be the title character? Deadline says Pitt was going to play the lead role, but who knows if by the time Tarantino finished his script it was about a movie critic anymore.
That’s a key factor here as well. Is Tarantino going back to the drawing board to pen a Cliff Booth-centric script? Everything is up in the air right now. THR describes the situation as a change of heart after the rewrites to include Pitt in it, saying he’s moved away from the project entirely. But what that means exactly for his 10th and final film is still unknown.
Interestingly, the news comes out the same day as Variety reported that Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Leo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence for a Frank Sinatra biopic, with DiCaprio playing the singer and Lawrence his second wife, Ava Gardner. The pic would film back-to-back with his next project, Life of Jesus, which is currently eyeing Andrew Garfield and Miles Teller to star — details are unknown, other than a 2024 shoot in Israel (ideally), Italy, and Egypt.
Spielberg is apparently also prepping a new movie about UFOs from his own original idea and scripted by David Koepp. He was originally supposed to direct Bullit next, but apparently also had a change of heart.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
