He intended for all the actors in his films to come and say goodbye, but in the end it seems that he didn’t know enough
It is already one of the greatest Hollywood films we will ever see: ‘The movie critic’ promised to be the ending at the level that Quentin Tarantino had been promising for decades with his tenth film, but, after a year of testing it, we know that he has decided to cut it short and throw it in the trash. Only doubts have remained in the air: what was she about? What exactly have we been missing? Why hasn’t Tarantino trusted her in the end? Thanks to the Hollywood Reporter we can get an idea.
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Originally, the film was about an unknown film critic who wrote for a porn magazine in the 70s and that the director loved it, but, after a few rewrites, it became a kind of spin-off of ‘Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood’ with Brad Pitt playing Cliff Booth once again. The director is clearly in love with this character, to whom he gave a lot of prominence in the fictionalized version of the film, but there was more. Much more.
And as farewell, Tarantino had prepared a kind of “meta-universe” where all his films had representation, in one way or another, throughout the plot. The director’s idea was to bring back the actors from those films replaying those roles, or playing fictional versions of themselves. What’s more, in this farewell to “cinema within cinema”, Quentin Tarantino intended for the characters to interact with a teenager with dreams of becoming an author. Obviously, a fictional version of himself, when he worked as a box office clerk in a porn cinema.
For a whole year We have heard numerous casting rumors, like Brad Pitt, John Travolta, Margot Robbie, Jamie Foxx or Tom Cruise. although, as they say, many of them (like Cruise) never even spoke with Tarantino. According to what those interviewed say, it is not that the director has given a specific reason for not making the film: he simply He has become more excited about other ideasespecially considering that he intends for his latest film to make him leave “on a high.”
Okay, and with ‘The movie critic’ removed from the equation, what’s left now? What is the future for Quentin Tarantino? This is not the first project he has thrown overboard (remember ‘Kill Bill vol. 3’, ‘Star Trek’ or the crossover between Django and Zorro), but he has become obsessed with his legendary tenth film and There is nothing that can match the expectation that he has created in his head.. It will still take us a while to find out how she wants to end his career, but for now we can forget about ‘The movie critic’. Who knows if she will one day take it up again!
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