According to Deadline, Tarantino has decided to drop The Movie Critic as his 10^th and final film, and is going to be looking to do something else. We don’t know much about the movie, but it has been revealed that Brad Pitt was expected to return as a star—THR even says that he was going to reprise the role of Cliff Booth from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Tarantino is no doubt a respected filmmaker on the same level as Martin Scorsese, but he has been criticized for putting a lot of pressure on this ‘final movie’ of his. It was said that wanting to only have ten films is the reason he dropped out of making a Star Trek picture, and now it’s the reason why he isn’t making The Movie Critic.

Who knows, Tarantino has had a change of heart several times before. He was even supposed to not go forward with Hateful Eight when the script had leaked earlier—and we all know how that went down.

So is Tarantino going to only make ten films? Maybe he should be like Spielberg and start producing some projects with some younger directors? We’ll just have to wait and see.

We don’t know what direction Trek is going now when it comes to box office movies, but screenwriter Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) reveals a bit about what Tarantino was planning for his Trek and why he decided to walk away from the project.

Talking to Collider, Smith revealed that Tarantino’s Trek would have taken the franchise in a completely mature and different direction—not unlike what Thor: Ragnarok did for Marvel’s Thor films. He explains:

“I think his vision was just to go hard. It was a hard R. It was going to be some ‘Pulp Fiction’ violence… Not a lot of the language, we saved a couple things for just special characters to kind of drop that into the ‘Star Trek’ world, but it was just really the edginess and the kind of that Tarantino flair, man, that he was bringing to it. It would have been cool.”

Smith didn’t really go into specifics, but he also mentioned that Tarantino’s Star Trek would have also harkened to Guardians of the Galaxy on some level.

As to why the film didn’t push forward, it looked like Tarantino got caught up in the notion that he only ever wants to make 10 movies in his filmography—and he didn’t want Trek to be his last one. Smith continues, “”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?’ And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk.”

As of now, Tarantino’s next film is called The Movie Critic which is said to be another inside look at the entertainment industry through Tarantino’s lens. Though a lot of fans are disappointed that Tarantino didn’t want to pursue Star Trek, you can’t deny that his solid filmography does speak for itself when it comes to Tarantino’s choices of projects.

Who knows, maybe Tarantino will change his mind down the line. We’ll just have to wait and see.

A new trailer has been dropped for the film, and it has everything you can expect from a Roth movie about pilgrims and turkey. Watch this:

The synopsis reads:

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays…or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?

We know that Halloween and Christmas dominate the holiday film genre, but once in a while we also get some films focused solely on American Thanksgiving. What’s interesting is, the movie is actually based on the faux trailer that Roth directed for Grindhouse which also featured him (he’s the guy getting head in the car):

No doubt, this Thanksgiving movie looks to be asking the audience to watch it with a cynical lens, and with Roth on the helm, we should expect all kinds of human suffering to be portrayed onscreen. How has this guy not been approached to direct a Saw film?

Watch out for Thanksgiving when it comes to cinemas on Nov. 17.

Taratino’s podcast The Video Archives Podcast just shared the announcement that former movie star Rick Dalton has passed away. Here’s the post:

We are saddened by the news of the passing of actor Rick Dalton, best known for his roles in the hit TV series Bounty Law and The Fireman trilogy.

Rick passed away peacefully in his home in Hawaii and is survived by his wife Francesca.

RIP Rick Dalton 1933-2023 pic.twitter.com/j51sNEh7AP

— The Video Archives Podcast (@VideoArchives) May 19, 2023

Immediately fans and other movie accounts started posting their ‘tributes’ out to Dalton, celebrating his fictional career. Even the New Beverly Cinema (which is owned by Tarantino) decided to get past the internet, and posted up a tribute to Dalton on their marquee.

IN LOVING MEMORY
RICK DALTON
1933 – 2023
"A WONDERFUL ACTOR" pic.twitter.com/YnBaJXK9Hy

— New Beverly Cinema (@newbeverly) May 20, 2023

Here are some other posts going around:

https://twitter.com/SolaceCinema/status/1659649566000422978

Probably my favorite part of the bit is the reactions where they try to ‘cancel’ Dalton based on the events of the film, from his association to Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) to him burning one of the Manson kids in his pool.

Sorry y’all. You can mourn Rick Dalton but you can’t ignore the fact he enabled Cliff Booth to continue to work in the industry despite what he did. That’s hugely problematic. Don’t believe me? Just Google “Cliff Booth” and “Wife”! pic.twitter.com/G7iDNqhIs7

— Reyna Cervantes (in her Yellowjackets era) (@Jfcdoomblade) May 19, 2023

reminder that rick d*lton MURDERED this woman and he should NOT be celebrated pic.twitter.com/RwFbWX6r0p

— jeremy (@jeremylovesyall) May 20, 2023

So far everyone is enjoying Tarantino’s little update on the OUATIH canon, but it would be great if we also found out what happened to some of the other characters. You think Sharon Tate would have lived to 2023 in this Tarantino’s alternate timeline?

To further remember Dalton’s legacy, you can check him out in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Miramax has sued Tarantino on the grounds that his move to sell Pulp Fiction NFTs will be meddling with deals that the studio is currently putting into place. They wrote in the lawsuit:

“Tarantino’s conduct has forced Miramax to bring this lawsuit against a valued collaborator in order to enforce, preserve, and protect its contractual and intellectual property rights relating to one of Miramax’s most iconic and valuable film properties… Left unchecked, Tarantino’s conduct could mislead others into believing Miramax is involved in his venture. And it could also mislead others into believing they have the rights to pursue similar deals or offerings, when in fact Miramax holds the rights needed to develop, market, and sell NFTs relating to its deep film library.”

On Tarantino’s side, his lawyer claims that the director is acting within his “Reserved Rights”, specifically pertaining to his right to “screenplay publication.”

With NFTs becoming a highly-valued commodity these days, it’s Tarantino’s move that has actually started turning heads when it came to monetizing exclusive studio content. If people would buy special editions for a few extra scenes, what more would they pay for an NFT?

Talking to GQ, Tarantino was asked about his fans calling out his foot fetish, to which he replies:

“I don’t take it seriously. There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies. That’s just good direction. Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director. And Hitchcock was accused of it and Sofia Coppola has been accused of it.”

If anything, I don’t think fans are taking any offense when it comes to Tarantino’s fondness for feet and at this point they just accept it as something that he likes to put into his films. That’s also a big reason why fans thought Tarantino was actually referencing himself with Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood because all the foot shots were so gratuitous that Tarantino had to be aware of it.

For now, Tarantino’s future in cinema is still up in the air, as he looks to be focusing on books for now (hence the article on GQ). With Tarantino having a very solid filmography with his career so far, he has said that he’s nervous that he could slip up going toward his last few films. Hopefully that won’t be the case down the line.

For now, you can watch out for Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood novelization now out in stores.

Talking to USA Today, Tarantino’s mother Connie Zastoupil said about Tarantino:

“Regarding my son Quentin – I support him, I’m proud of him and love him and his growing new family. It gave me great joy to dance at his wedding and receive his news upon the birth of my Grandson Leo.”

For context, in an appearance on The Moment podcast (via IndieWire), Tarantino had shared a story about his mother scolding him for writing screenplays when he wasn’t paying attention in school. He said:

“She was bitching at me about that and then in the middle of her little tirade, she said, ‘Oh, and by the way, this little ‘writing career,’ with the finger quotes and everything. This little ‘writing career’ that you’re doing? That shit is fucking over,’… She meant you just can’t do that in class when you should be doing something else.”

Tarantino had then said that he promised himself that he won’t give his mother anything that he earned from his ‘writing career,’ and so far he said he kept that promise. “No Cadillac, no house. There are consequences for your words as you deal with your children.”

While this seems kind of harsh on the director’s part, he did say that he does help his mother where it counts, like when she had ‘a jam with the IRS.’ I’m sure he’s still thankful for his mother raising him and cultivating his love for movies at an early age.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Harley Quinn actress Margot Robbie has been cast in Anderson’s latest project. We don’t have any details about the project yet, but we do know that the movie is set to start shooting later this month.

Robbie is a newcomer when it comes to the pool of actors that Anderson has previously worked with. Besides Hanks, the film’s cast also includes Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, and Tilda Swinton.

Recently Robbie has been nabbing roles with a lot of high-end directors from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood to James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. She’s also proven to be a great producer herself and has also been cast in the Barbie film with Greta Gerwig at the helm.

We’ve yet to get any updates on Anderson’s next movie, but if anything, The French Dispatch looks to be Anderson taking his style to the limit, what with the framed narratives, symmetrical shots, and colorful sets. I think the star-studded cast which includes Timothee Chalamet, Frances McDormand, and Jeffrey Wright is also worth mentioning.

The French Dispatch gets a wide release on Oct. 22. You can catch Robbie in The Suicide Squad now available in theaters and on HBO Max.

Talking to The Big Picture podcast (via /Film), Tarantino has shared that he wants to remake First Blood, but this time based on the original novel by David Morrell. He says:

“When David O. Russell talked about doing ‘The Fighter,’ he was over himself and over being the auteur… He just wanted to make a good movie that people are going to enjoy. There was something really refreshing about him saying that, and that perspective. If I just wanted to make a good movie, that I knew would be good, I would take David Morrell’s novel for ‘First Blood’ and do the novel. Not the movie that was made out of ‘First Blood.’ I would do the novel.”

Just in case you didn’t know, First Blood – which came out in 1982– was the film that introduced audiences to the character of John Rambo played by Sylvester Stallone. Though Rambo is pretty much a pop-culture icon today, it would be interesting to see how Tarantino would handle the story.

Here’s his fancast for the film:

“Kurt Russell would play the sheriff, and [Adam Driver] would play Rambo. Every time I read it, the dialogue is so fantastic in the David Morrell novel that you’re reading it out loud. It would be so good. But now I want to do more than that. But if it was just about to make a good movie, that’s out there.”

After teasing working on a Star Trek movie, I doubt that Tarantino would want to make his last film an adaptation. Then again, with Tarantino notorious for ‘borrowing’ elements from other things, a war epic adaptation of First Blood would be interesting.