Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt will work together again in what will be the American director’s last film, titled The Movie Critic, according to the specialized media The Hollywood Reporter. The director of Pulp Fiction already confirmed in an interview with La Vanguardia last April that The Movie Critic would be his last feature film because he was not motivated to direct any more. “I think ten is a perfect number. And, besides, I want to spend more time with my family,” he said while promoting his first non-fiction book, Cinema Speculation.
The role that Pitt will assume in this third project in which both collaborate is unknown. The first time was in Inglourious Basterds (2009), in which he played Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of a group of American Jewish soldiers who were dedicated to hunting and killing Nazi soldiers in occupied France during World War II. The last one was in Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood (2019), which earned him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Cliff Booth, stunt double and close friend of Rick Dalton, a Hollywood superstar. played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
The upcoming film is based on a script by Tarantino himself, who commented that it will revolve around a film critic from the 1970s who actually existed and who wrote for a porn magazine. At the last edition of the Cannes Film Festival he said that he was looking for his protagonist, an actor of about 35 years old, in a story set in California in 1977. So Pitt, who has just turned 60, would be too old for him. main role.
At first it was assumed that the plot would revolve around the veteran film critic Pauline Kael, but the director himself already denied the rumor to this newspaper. In the past, Tarantino had mentioned that his directing career would be limited to ten films and that he wanted to retire at 60, his current age.