Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino are set to work with one another again on 'The Movie Critic,' which could be the renowned director's 10th and final movie.
It was unclear if Pitt would play the "title character" in the film.
Pitt, Tarantino To Reunite in Final Film
Deadline reported on Thursday that the film is expected to be released in 2025 by Sony, with Stacey Sher as a producer.
In the past, Pitt and Tarantino collaborated on the films 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) and 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (2019).
They took home Oscars for their roles in the latter movie in 2020. Pitt won the 'Best Performance' by an 'Actor in a Supporting Role,' while Tarantino won 'Best Original Screenplay.'
In May 2023, Tarantino discussed his future project with Deadline and hosted a screening of the 1977 film 'Rolling Thunder' at the Cannes Film Festival.
Tarantino revealed to the outlet during the event that 'The Movie Critic' will take place in 1977. He said that the film's protagonist would be "a guy who lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag."
He said that the idea for the character sprang from his work as a teenager stocking vending machines with adult magazines and retrieving the quarters. He continued that all the other stuff was too skanky to read, but then there was a porno rag that had a really interesting movie page.
"There was one critic in particular [who he] liked, who wrote snarky and smart as the second-string critic," Tarantino told the outlet.
Regarding the reviewer, he stated that he was the second-stringer and wrote about mainstream movies. He added that he was a really good critic and a cynic.
His reviews resembled a hybrid of early Howard Stern and Travis Bickle in a film critic role.
Tarantino noted that the critic "wrote like he was 55, but he was only in his early to mid-30s," who also said the critic "died in his late thirties" from "complications due to alcoholism."
At the time, Tarantino told the outlet he was looking for someone in the 35-year-old ballpark. Thus, Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio were not good fits for the part.
Tarantino Promises Farewell Film
Tarantino received two Academy Awards for screenwriting in his films 'Django Unchained' (2012) and 'Pulp Fiction' (1994), both of which he directed. 'Jackie Brown' (1997), 'Kill Bill: Volume 1' (2003), 'Kill Bill: Volume 2' (2004), 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009), and 'The Hateful Eight' (2015) are the other standalone features he has directed.
The director replied in 2022 to Wallace when asked why he does not want to work to diminishing returns, "I don't want to become this old man who's out of touch when, already, I'm feeling a bit like an old man out of touch when it comes to the current movies that are out right now."
When Wallace questioned Tarantino if he knew what his "tenth and last film is going to be," he said, "No, I don't, at all, because I'm also not in a giant hurry to make my last movie."
