Here's an article about Kael's days in Hollywood: Warren Beatty, Pauline Kael, and an Epic Hollywood Mistake
I was just thinking today that if this is set in the 70s, maybe Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth will be back.
Wonder if anymore news might leak soon about the series he was supposed to be putting out on Netflix? That’s was supposed to be signed off so he said in an Interview a few months ago.
I'd like to see a nice "grainy" R rated 70's style sci fi. Maybe a retelling of Logans Run, or an R rated Star Trek. There's millions of sci fi fans that aren't 12.....right?
I think Quentin Tarantino and Shane Black should team up to write and direct a remake of Dead Heat (1988) or maybe The Monster Squad Part II.
Some more details about “The Film Critix” Brad Pitt is reportedly starring in Quentin Tarantino’s final film The Movie Critic, according to a Deadlinereport. The pair previously worked together in 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with the role bringing Pitt his first Oscar for best supporting actor. Pitt also starred in 2009’s Inglourious Basterds and featured in 1993’s True Romance, which was co-written by Tarantino. The new Los Angeles-set film, allegedly Tarantino’s last, is set in 1977 about a critic working for a fictional publication called The Popstar Pages. Tarantino has said it’s “based on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag”. He added: “He was very rude, you know. He cursed. He used racial slurs. But his **** was really funny. He was as rude as hell.” “He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic,” Tarantino also said to Deadline at last year’s Cannes film festival. “I think he was a very good critic. He was cynical as hell. His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle might be if he were a film critic.” Tarantino had previously said the lead would be “somebody in the 35-year-old ball park” and “a new leading man for me”.
I’d watch whatever he does of course, but gotta say it was all sounding pretty underwhelming. Wonder why he scrapped it. Wish he would drop the whole quitting with 10 thing too.
Bummed. I was exited about the setting and the vague premise. Not mention how long is it gonna be till he starts filming the next one now? Would he have done it if he didn’t have the ridiculous only 10 films rule? Well whatever he does next, I hope it’s still set in the late 70s. Would love a classic LA gangster film set in that era from him.
I wasn’t keen on the movie critic, but I’m sure it would have been interesting. Think QT wants another big box office success like Once… Hollywood.
Since QT lives in Israel now, I wonder if he decided to do something related to current events (hopefully not involving Brad Pitt in a yarmulke).
It's definitely the kind of thing that I would do, become a fan of a second-string movie critic who writes for a trashy rag, so the idea of the main character appealed to me. Oh well. His last one was about the movie industry, and Inglourious Basterds had a lot to do with the cinema as well. Maybe he got to thinking that he should move away from that.
Grindhouse-no, Death Proof-yes. Semantical I know but we’re dealing with a situation where one of the films we’ve all seen as two.
