Ever since Quentin Tarantino scrapped what was supposed to be his tenth and final film, “The Movie Critic,” we haven’t heard much of an update in regard to another potential film being in the works. There might be a reason for this …
Tarantino is telling Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast that his current work resides in writing a potential play for Broadway:
I’m leaning more right now towards writing for theater […] in a comedy play, the audience is a character in the room. and it's like you say this, the audience laughs, the actors kind of wait for a moment when the laugh dies down, then they got to pick up the pace and it's a rhythm, it's almost like the audience is almost like a live animal in the room.
Maher then tells Tarantino that he should just stick to making his final movie, and Tarantino says, amusingly, that “if it turns out to be a popular play then I’ll probably make a movie out of it.”
Earlier in the year, Tarantino was gearing up to shoot “The Movie Critic,” starring Brad Pitt, that is until Deadline revealed he had scrapped the project entirely for another film. Word is that Tarantino rewrote the ‘Movie Critic’ script, had a new draft and then, quite simply, had a change of heart.
Now, given Tarantino’s past history, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least bit if he goes back to “The Movie Critic.” He practically did the same thing with “The Hateful Eight,” initially scrapping it when the script leaked online, and then finally directing it many months later.
In the podcast interview, Tarantino doesn’t mention the ‘Movie Critic’ drama, nor is he asked about it, but we’ll be keeping an eye out on Part 2 of the Maher sit down, which should be dropping online sometime this week.