Quentin Tarantino Reveals the Premise of His Next Film

Quentin Tarantino has confirmed stories from earlier this 12 months that his subsequent mission is a movie titled The Movie Critic. At the time the film’s existence was first revealed again in March there have been no specifics about its topic past what could possibly be inferred from its title. Some journalists really speculated that movie could possibly be a biopic of legendary New Yorker critic Pauline Kael.

It seems, based on Tarantino, that whereas Kael shouldn’t be the topic of The Movie Critic, the movie is impressed indirectly on a real-life author. At the Cannes Film Festival this week, Tarantino informed Deadline that The Movie Critic is “based on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.” Tarantino claimed to have found this unnamed author (who labored for {a magazine} Tarantino additionally refused to call) as an adolescent whereas stocking porn journal merchandising machines (which apparently was a job in the Nineteen Seventies?).

“He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic, ” Tarantino defined. “I think he was a very good critic. He was as cynical as hell. His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle [Robert De Niro’s character in Taxi Driver] might be if he were a film critic.” (Sleuthing followers imagine the character is predicated on author Bill Margold, who did certainly write film critiques in the Nineteen Seventies for a porn journal titled Hollywood Press.)

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The Movie Critic could be Tarantino’s second movie in a row about moviemaking and movie historical past, following 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Apart from his work as a director, Tarantino has additionally proven growing curiosity in movie criticism in recent times. He now hosts his personal movie podcast, The Video Archives Podcast; late final 12 months, he printed his first ebook of movie criticism, Cinema Speculation.

The Movie Critic doesn’t but have a launch date or a confirmed star (Tarantino stated he expects to solid an actor he hasn’t labored with earlier than) however it’s anticipated to enter pre-production later this 12 months.