Quentin Tarantino Scraps His Last Film ‘The Movie Critic’

Quentin Tarantino scraps his last film, going back to the drawing board. Back in 2022, the famed director announced his tenth film would be his final one.

He has directed nine standalone films over the past 30 years. “I’ve been doing it for a long time; I’ve been doing it for 30 years. And it’s time to wrap up the show," he said at the time.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino, 61, was working on The Movie Critic for months, but is completely scrapping the idea. The project was scheduled to shoot for one day in August before it began production in early 2025. Set in 1977 California, The Movie Critic initially drew inspiration from a cynical movie critic that the filmmaker grew up reading.

Sources tell THR the film "morphed" along the way into a film that would feature Brad Pitt reprising his role as Cliff Booth, the stuntman he portrayed in the Oscar-winning 2019 performance in Tarantino’s previous film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It is unclear if this film was going to be a prequel or a sequel to Hollywood.

No studio was attached to The Movie Critic, which is the latest project to fall by the wayside for Tarantino. He previously worked on an R-rated Star Trek movie for Paramount that didn't come to fruition.

Tarantino kicked off his big-screen directorial debut with 1992’s Reservoir Dogs. Most recently, he won two Oscars for the nearly three-hour Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He won an Oscar for both 1994’s Pulp Fiction and 2012’s Django Unchained. The remainder of his directed standalone features include Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and The Hateful Eight (2015).

On X (formerly Twitter), fans slammed Tarantino for wanting to hit a certain number of films before retiring as a director. One person wrote: "he's overthinking it because of this dumb ten-movie limit. handcuffed to anxiety over his own legacy. very lame imo." Another thought the same, commenting, "He gonna curse himself with this 10 film limit." A third said, "Why is even putting a lid on his career in the first place, he hasn't done enough films to be calling it quits. Guys are working well into their 70s now."

Some fans had suggestions for other projects for Tarantino. "He obviously dropped it to direct Spider-Man 4," joked one fan. One added a fan-made poster and suggested: "Kill Bill Vol. 3 [looking eyes emoji]." Another suggested the video game: "Devil May Cry movie adaptation." Another fan joked about his alleged foot fetish, writing, "Introducing 'The Foot Critic'."

Kill Bill star Uma Thurman celebrated the 30th anniversary of Pulp Fiction (where she starred as Mia Wallace) today on Instagram. Reflecting on the film, Uma wrote in her caption: "trying to forget anything as intriguing as this would be an exercise in futility." Fans went wild in the comments, with many asking: "Kill Bill Vol 3??" One person asked, "Hmm..now that The Movie Critic is out of the picture i smell a 3rd collaboration ??"

Quentin Tarantino has made some of our favorite films. His directorial film debut was in 1992 with Reservoir Dogs starring Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Chris Penn and the director himself. His second film, Pulp Fiction (1994), became a major success that many people regard as his best work. From then on, female feet obsessed director, came out with Jackie Brown in 1997, Kill Bill Vol. 1 in 2003, Kill Bill Vol. 2 a year later, Death Proof in 2007, Inglourious Basterds in 2009, Django Unchained in 2012, The Hateful Eight in 2015 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2019.

Tarantino's work isn't for the faint of heart, with his graphic depictions of violence, frequent inclusion of racial slurs and the alleged negligence of safety in his handling of stunt scenes. Over the course of his professional career, now spanning 30 years, Tarantino's films have garnered a cult following with his success of becoming a household name.

Take a look below at our ranking of Quentin Tarantino's movies:

After watching this in theaters, I thought this very long film (2 hours and 40 minutes) was pretty good! Though it didn't make it to the top of our Tarantino's best films list, it's pretty captivating. Actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) gained fame and fortune by starring in a 1950s television Western, but is now struggling to find meaningful work in a Hollywood that he doesn't recognize anymore. He spends most of his time drinking with Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his easygoing best friend and longtime stunt double. Rick also happens to live next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) -- the filmmaker and budding actress whose futures will forever be altered by members of the Manson Family.

Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) is a professional body double who likes to take unsuspecting women for deadly drives in his free time. He has doctored his car for maximum impact; when Mike purposely causes wrecks, the bodies pile up while he walks away with barely a scratch. The insane Mike may be in over his head, though, when he targets a tough group of female friends, including real-life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who served as Uma Thurman's double in Kill Bill), who plays herself.The film was originally released as a double feature with obert Rodriguez's Planet Terror under the name Grindhouse.

The Bride (Uma Thurman) picks up where she left off in volume one with her quest to finish the hit list she has composed of all of the people who have wronged her, including her ex-boyfriend Bill (the late David Carradine), who tried to have her killed four years ago during her wedding to another man. Leaving several dead in her wake, she eventually tracks down Bill in Mexico. Using skills she has learned during her assassin career, she attempts to finish what she set out to do in the first place.

We can't get over how ridiculous Samuel L. Jackson's Ordell looks with his red hair and braided string of a goatee in this film. Pam Grier's Jackie Brown is caught up transporting Ordell's money back and forth from Cabo San Lucas back to Los Angeles. Robert De Niro plays Ordell's freshly-released-from-prison friend Louis. Unfortunately, he has to spend his time with one of Ordell's girlfriends, the chaotic Melanie, who will always do what Melanie does. Bail bondsmen Max Cherry (the late Robert Forster) gets hit with cupid's bow the moment he meets Brown out of jail and decides to help her out in her ploy to deceive the ATF (Michael Keaton) and Ordell. We love a happy ending where a woman gets one over on everyone.

Mr. Orange, Mr. Blue, Mr. White, Mr. Brown, Mr. Pink and Mr. Blonde all have a heist to do. But what happens when one of them is a rat and tips off the cops? Well, when no one can trust each other, or put their trust in the wrong person, someone's gonna get shot. And someone's gonna lose an ear.

Quentin wasn't lying when he thought up of the title for this film. Kurt Russell delivers an amazing performance as "The Hangman." He trusts nobody at first (rightfully), but when faced with dodgy characters at Minnie's Haberdashery, he warms up a little in order to take the firecracker murderer that is Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh). No one messes with Samuel L. Jackson's Major Marquis Warren, or you're bound to get shot -- especially if you're a General of the Confederates. Though the movie ends in a blood bath, we get a nice little dance by Daisy that warms all of our hearts.

Uma Thurman plays a former assassin, known simply as The Bride, who wakes up from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill (David Carradine) attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable thirst for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, the murder of her entire wedding party, and fthe our years of her life that she spent in a coma.

We can't count how many times we've watched Pulp Fiction, as we know the words to our favorite scenes by now. The film follows multiple storylines starting with the iconic hitmen duo Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson). Their boss Marsellus Wallace's (Ving Rhames) wife, Mia (Uma Thurman) causes them a whole lot of trouble on her night out with Vega. Their problems lead to a run-in with struggling boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) and a nervous couple of armed robbers, "Pumpkin" (Tim Roth) and "Honey Bunny" (Amanda Plummer).

This is another Tarantino film we've watched many a time. Set in Nazi France, the cunning and merciless Hans Landa (played by the brilliant Christoph Waltz) has made it his personal mission to find Shosanna after she is the only member of her family to get away from his murder spree. Years later, she becomes a theater owner in Paris. Allied officer Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) assembles a team of Jewish soldiers to kill and scalp Nazis. He and his men join forces with Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), a German actress and undercover agent, to bring down the leaders of the Third Reich.

The story of Django (Jamie Foxx) being freed by Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter begins with their quest to kill the Brittle brothers. As Django and Schultz rack up more bounties together, there's only one thing on Django's mind: rescuing his love, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), from Monsieur Candie's (Leonardo DiCaprio) Candyland plantation. Django and Schultz devise a master plan, only to be foiled by Samuel L. Jackson's Stephen, who knows what they're really there for. Plus, he hates that Django is a freedman. What's to follow is a shootout that leaves Django alone to save his woman and ride out into the sunset.