Here’s Samuel L. Jackson confirming that he was in talks to be in Quentin Tarantino’s “The Movie Critic,” but once that project got scrapped, he hasn’t heard back from the filmmaker …
I have no idea. Before, when he was getting ready to do the film [The Movie Critic], we had talked about me doing something in it, and then he changed the film. And now he’s just disappeared. So we have no idea where he is and what he’s going to do. But I’ve got to keep working. My wife needs things.
If anyone might know what Tarantino is up to then it’s Jackson who has collaborated on seven of the filmmaker’s nine feature films.
“The Movie Critic” was supposed to be Tarantino’s tenth and final film, and 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 recently told Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast that his current work resides in writing a potential play for Broadway.
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 exact same thing with “The Hateful Eight,” initially shelving it when the script leaked online, and then finally hopping back to it many months later.
It’s coming close to six years since Tarantino’s last film, “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.” The filmmaker’s insistence to cap off his career with a tenth and final film has now become a crux.
Tarantino has been insisting, for a few years now, that he plans to quit making movies after his 10th feature. This whole notion of retiring after ten movies comes from his theory that a director’s quality of work only worsens as they age. Tarantino wants his filmography to be perfect or, as he puts it, “without a misfire.”
Memo to Quentin: you’re allowed to direct more than 10 movies. This theory, idea, or whatever you want to call, that you have set yourself up with is creatively limiting and can drive any one person absolutely crazy.