Quentin Tarantino’s THE MOVIE CRITIC was scrapped and featured a “farewell metaverse” featuring characters from his films

Last week, director Quentin Tarantino made the surprise announcement that his long-awaited tenth and final film, previously announced, The film criticit wouldn’t go any further.

Sources say the director is still looking to make a tenth film, as planned, but it won’t be the one he previously told fans about. The film had already been launched Brad Pitt in the lead role, and Tom Cruise he was also said to be in talks to join the film.

Tarantino previously said the film would be set in California in 1977 and that it was “based on a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and who wrote movie reviews for a porn rag.”

The inspiration dates back to a job Tarantino did as a teenager, loading porn magazines into a vending machine and emptying coins from the ATM.

Now we have even more information on what that film could have been, thanks to a profile by The Hollywood journalist. The article claims that sources close to the project revealed a couple of intriguing ideas that Tarantino was playing with.

The first was that the Hollywood-set story could serve as Tarantino’s farewell meta-verse, given that the director’s first films existed in the same era as The film critic (which might work, since his films have a 70s vibe). That way, Tarantino could bring back some of the stars from his previous works to reprise their iconic characters in “film-within-a-film” moments, or to play fictional versions of themselves as the actors who played those characters.

Another idea seemed inspired by Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans, and would feature scenes inside a movie theater where certain characters could potentially interact with a budding future author, like a 16-year-old Tarantino, working as an usher in Torrance, California. porn theater (“I was tall enough to get away with it,” Tarantino once explained).

In recent months, the production has been – as Jules Winnfield would say – besieged on all sides by the tyranny of casting rumors. At a certain point, The film critic he would have shot a short sequence in February with the actor-wrestler Paolo Walter Hauserbut a source close to the actor says he was “never involved.”

There have also been reports of previous Tarantino stars John Travolta, Jamie Foxx AND Margot Robbie they would take part in his cinematic farewell. There was even speculation that Tom Cruise would be in the film. Cruise, in the tradition of Tarantino, was initially eyed for Pitt’s Once upon a time role, but scheduling forced him to withdraw.

Fans were selling a Cruise-Tarantino pairing, but The film critic he wouldn’t actually bring them together. According to sources, Cruise hadn’t even met the director about a role.

One person who met Tarantino, however, was the actress Olivia Wilde. Wilde is said to have sat down with Tarantino this year, though it’s unclear whether it was for a role or just a general meeting. A source pointed to a character in a draft script based on legendary film critic Pauline Kael.

Another actor who might have been close to a role was David Krumholtz, last seen in Oppenheimer. Sources said Krumholtz was being eyed, although it was unclear for what role.

Behind the scenes, Tarantino surrounded himself with familiar collaborators. Stacey Sher produced the project the hateful eight AND Django Unchained. And Victoria Thomas, who was the casting director for the filmmaker Once upon a time, Eight hateful ones AND Django Unchainedwas in the process of coming on board and was reportedly making some initial attempts with the actors when the effort fell through.

It’s a little sad to hear all the “what ifs” for this film, and know that this film could have been an intersection with Tarantino’s films and a tribute to the budding director as he came of age.

This seems like the perfect movie to watch for a fan of his films! But I trust he’ll come up with something brilliant and we’ll end up with a great final film.