Brad Pitt might be the eponymous Movie Critic in Quentin Tarantino’s final film
If it happens, it'll be the duo's third movie together
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We heard last March that Quentin Tarantino’s final movie—assuming he sticks to his self-imposed 10-movie limit—will be called The Movie Critic, and we heard a month later that it would not be about influential movie critic Pauline Kael. Then, a month after that, Tarantino revealed at Cannes that the movie is inspired by “a guy who really lived,” was “never really famous,” and “used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.” Now… several months after that, we may know who will play the movie critic in The Movie Critic.
According to Deadline, Brad Pitt will be appearing in the film, possibly as the main character, making this his third movie with Tarantino after Inglorious Basterds and Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood. Deadline even floats the theory that Pitt will be playing Cliff Booth from Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood again, but that just seems to be based on fan service hopes than anything. (Maybe he could cross paths with the Vega brothers and meet The Bride’s daughter? And they could all join the Enterprise crew and become holodeck gangsters for some reason?)
The Movie Critic is set to come out in 2025, though Tarantino hasn’t made it yet, so that window could be moved. Then again, we’re only on February 1 of 2024, so there’s basically 23 months to go before Tarantino misses 2025, and that seems like a lot of time to make a movie (it’s one movie, Michael, what could it cost?). Or maybe he’ll realize that he doesn’t want his movie career to end and he’ll come up with some excuses to delay The Movie Critic. He could direct more television, he could get into video games like John Carpenter. Video games are great these days, Quentin. Consider it!
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I hope he’s not the lead. I remember reading an article where Tarantino said his regulars like Pitt and Dicaprio were too old for the part and he seemed really excited at the idea of casting an unknown. Hope that’s still the case.
I do think it’s a goddamn travesty that we won’t be getting a Kill Beatrice movie. It was so perfectly set up.
Or even a Kill Beatrix movie.
Need to get a BB / Nikki team-up going. Cameo by Beatrix.
So lots of shots of Brad Pitt’s feet or no?
Pitt’s critic will rate films on a scale of numbers of suckable toes out of 10. A completely unwatchable film will be referred to as a “Full Frostbite”.
The idea of Cliff Booth ending up as an unknown movie critic is not so out there, given his depiction as a film buff in the novelization.
Review of Serpico, by Cliff Booth:“Yeah, man, I mean, it was cool.”
He goes into a long digression on the Mifune/Kurosawa collaboration. I think the whole section was Tarantino’s dry-run for Cinema Speculation.
Or, maybe Tarantino can just be done. He’s had a good run, it’s fine.
people who are still coming up with quentin tarantino universe theories are like the ww2 troops trapped on that island for years.
Brad Pitt in a Star Trek movie, lol.
he’s too pretty to be Jay Sherman.
He’d be a pretty good Jeremy Hawke, though.
As a contemporary of QT, I’m finding the presumed last quarter of my life is preoccupied with me frequently thinking “I just hope that (restaurant/bar/theater/park/trend) lasts until I’m gone.” I include QT movies in this. It will suck if this truly is his last film, since, love or hate him, he’s left an indelible mark on the last 30 years of cinema. A new QT film remains a cultural event, and to some extent a twice-a-decade barometer of where we are vs where we were. Sure, there’s solace in him inspiring a generation of writers and directors who’ve also gone on to more deeply consider, widen, and love the medium, and I’m grateful for all of them. I’m also well aware that Rust Never Sleeps, and that, for example, Clint Eastwood’s last few outings have reeked of decline, but I’m much more charitable towards him going down swinging than I would’ve been in my dipshit punk youth.In other words, kiddos, “better to burn out than to fade away” sounded a lot better when I was closer to the starting gate than the finish line.
IT STINKS!