The two-time Academy Award winner is set to reunite with the filmmaker, who directed him in 'Inglourious Basterds' and 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood', for the director's final film 'The Movie Critic'.
- Feb 2, 2024
AceShowbiz - Brad Pitt is going to help Quentin Tarantino sing his swan song. The 60-year-old actor is reportedly set to reunite with the filmmaker for an upcoming movie titled "The Movie Critic", which is billed as the director's his final film.
While some news outlets reported that the Hollywood star is circling the project, Deadline claimed that the "World War Z" star has signed up to star in the movie. It is unclear what role Pitt has secured in the film, but he is likely to play the title character.
Other details about the forthcoming film remain scarce, but it is believed that Sony Pictures will be back as the studio distributing the movie, with Stacey Sher producing. The movie reportedly eyes a 2025 release.
Tarantino previously spilled to Deadline about the inspiration behind "The Movie Critic". Back in May, at the Cannes Film Festival where he presided over a screening of "Rolling Thunder", the filmmaker shared that his next movie is set in California in 1977 and that it "is based on a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag."
The "Kill Bill" helmer was inspired by his own job as a teen, loading porn magazines into a vending machine and emptying quarters out of the cash dispenser. "All the other stuff was too skanky to read, but then there was this porno rag that had a really interesting movie page," he said at the time.
The 60-year-old filmmaker, however, has done quite a bit of rewriting since then. Filming reportedly will take place in California.
Pitt and Tarantino previously worked together in "Inglourious Basterds" (2009) and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (2019). For the latter film, Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Tarantino has said that he will retire from feature filmmaking after 10 films. He has been particularly selective about his next project as it would mark his final film. Back when he was still attached to a "Star Trek" project, he was reportedly worried that it would be his last hurrah.
Writer Mark L. Smith told Collider, "Quentin and I went back and forth, he was gonna do some stuff on it, and then he started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films. I remember we were talking, and he goes, 'If I can just wrap my head around the idea that 'Star Trek' could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?' Unfortunately, Tarantino, who has been open about his desire to retire after directing 10 films, couldn't 'get across' that bump."
