Inside the chaotic, late-night collapse of the director's mystery final film, amid writing and casting rumors (Tom Cruise?) and Sony Pictures' complete support.
“I trust myself as a writer, I trust my process,” Quentin Tarantino said at Adobe Max 2016. “I never remove anything prematurely.
If I do, I realize and return it.” The renowned director added: “Not every film needs to be made. Not all movies should be made.”
The Movie Critic, Tarantino's 10th and final feature, was canceled on April 17. After several rewrites, the movie became a spinoff of his ninth picture,
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with additional meta twists. It originally focused on a writer for a fictional porn magazine in the late 1970s.
Given that the project was expected to film at least one sequence this year and go into full production in early 2025 with an A-list talent (Brad Pitt, reteaming with Tarantino for a third feature), the decision was surprising.
“I don’t recall him rewriting so much and pushing a start date once he had a movie in mind,” adds an agency partner.
After making 2019's Once Upon a Time a blockbuster, two sources close to the project told The Hollywood Reporter that Sony Pictures was on board.
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