Once upon a time in Hollywood … once more?
According to experiences, Quentin Tarantino is making ready his subsequent film as a director. And if Tarantino is a person of his phrase, this will likely be his closing work as a filmmaker. (In the previous he’s vowed to solely direct 10 films; this is able to be his tenth following Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill (which he considers only one film), Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the mission is titled The Movie Critic — the script is reportedly already written — and is “set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center.” They speculate that the movie may truly be a biopic about Pauline Kael, the legendary movie critic who was on the peak of her energy throughout that point (and in addition briefly took a job working at Paramount Pictures). Tarantino apparently needs to shoot the movie this fall.
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Film criticism has lengthy been an curiosity of Tarantino’s. He not too long ago revealed his first assortment of movie criticism, Cinema Speculation, which does embrace essays that discuss Kael and her response to sure movies on this identical Seventies time interval. Tarantino additionally has his personal podcast, The Video Archives Podcast, together with his Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary. And, in fact, the mission would dovetail with — and will probably be a form of religious sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — which was concerning the world of films and Los Angeles within the Nineteen Sixties, whereas, at the very least in keeping with THR, this one is about L.A. within the Seventies.
If true, that is each an intriguing topic for Tarantino and form of a miserable one — if solely as a result of it makes you need to see his film about ’80s Hollywood or ’90s Hollywood too. (Tarantino must be a fictional character in that final one.) But if Tarantino sticks to what he has stated prior to now, he won’t ever make these.
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