A film in regards to the film business set within the 70s? Sounds very Quentin Tarantino. The “Pulp Fiction” filmmaker has been hinting at retirement for a number of years now, suggesting his tenth movie can be his last (not counting any TV initiatives he would possibly do, which he considers completely different). And it feels like he might have discovered that venture in a film referred to as “The Movie Critic,” being written for a feminine lead.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, “The Movie Critic” is already written, and he’s getting ready to direct the movie this fall, a a lot sooner timetable than anybody would have thought. The logline particulars are being saved underneath wraps, however the supply described the story to THR “as being set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center.”
The movie may middle on well-known feminine movie critic Pauline Kael or a personality based mostly on the notoriously ruthless and combative New Yorker movie critic, primarily thought of probably the most influential and vital film critics of all time. Kael was an essayist and novelist and arguably has dramatically influenced the film books that Tarantino has lately written, like his “Cinema Speculation” e book. Tarantino was additionally one of many speaking heads of the 2018 documentary “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.“
Kael was identified for her fights with editors and filmmakers, by no means backing down for a combat (think about her within the age of Twitter)—extra context from THR.
“In the late 1970s, Kael had a very brief tenure working as a consultant for Paramount, a position she accepted at the behest of actor Warren Beatty. The timing of that Paramount job seems to coincide with the setting of the script — and the filmmaker is known to have a deep respect for Kael, making the odds of her being the subject of the film more likely.” Who’s already pondering of Margot Robbie once more?
No studio is behind the movie but, however a bidding battle will certainly get away. Tarantino has been having fun with loads of meta-Hollywood storytelling recently along with his “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” movie and all its adjunct/adjoining initiatives—the novel, the stageplay he retains threatening to make—and so perhait’st’s not a shock for his subsequent, and probably last movie, he would pivot in direction of the meta movie criticism that he himself has been indulging in of late (and has instructed after retirement, many extra movie criticism books may come).
It was reported at one time that Tarantino had a TV collection set for 2023, however clearly, that plan has modified. He’s additionally talked about a “Bounty Law” TV spin-off from “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” nevertheless it may simply be one in every of Tarantino’s many wishlist initiatives that by no means occur (tons of examples right here; The Lost, Unmade & Possible Future Films Of Quentin Tarantino). No plot particulars ever did floor, however perhaps it’s one thing he would possibly sort out afterward. Tarantino was in talks to direct episodes of the brand new “Justified” revival however reportedly dropped out over artistic variations (reportedly, he needed to shoot on movie, and the TV producers didn’t).