Before its cancelation, Quentin Tarantino’s final movie The Movie Critic was set to contain a “meta-verse” style of storytelling.
The Movie Criticwas set to be Tarantino’sfinal outingas a director and, to celebrate this, the project was supposed to feature a “meta-verse,” which would pull all ofTarantino’s moviesinto one universe as a goodbye to the director’s legacy.
Tarantino pitched the movie to follow a “guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.”
A lot of rumors were floated around about the movie itself, including casting acontroversial comedianas the lead, but the director ended upshelving the projectas a whole before production could start later this year.
Due to its cancellation, some sources close to the project have leaked some insights into the details surrounding the movie, including that Tarantino flirted with the idea of creating a multiverse style of storytelling.
The Hollywood Reporternoted, since The Movie Critic was pitched to be set in set in Hollywood, Tarantino toyed with the idea of bringing back some actors from his iconic movies to reprise their characters in “movie within a movie moments” or as fictional versions of their true selves.
Tarantino has a laundry list of actors he could’ve called upon from Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) to Uma Thurman (Kill Bill) to Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), so there was no limit on how meta he could’ve went with The Movie Critic.
However, though no source could confirm why Tarantino decided to put the movie on the back burner for now, THR reported he might have shelved the project to due to the pressure of “going out on top.”
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Kayla Harrington was a TV & Movies Writer on Dexerto’s US team, specializing in The Boys, The Walking Dead, House of the Dragon, Marvel and Star Wars. She also has bylines at Mashable, BuzzFeed, and The Mary Sue.
