Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has denied reports that his upcoming tenth and supposedly final directorial effort will be about famed film critic Pauline Kael.
First revealed the other week, the film is being titled “The Movie Critic,” with the script having already been written and the filmmaker prepping to direct it this Fall.
Those initial reports indicated the film is set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center – which led to the chatter about the film being about Kael, the essayist who remains one of the most influential movie critics of all time.
Tarantino is known to have had a deep respect for Kael who, around that time in history, had a brief tenure working as a consultant for Paramount at the behest of actor Warren Beatty.
Tarantino appeared at the Grand Rex venue in Paris last night as part of its Cinema Speculations series. According to Gregorian Toutain, Tarantino would only say three things about the film at the event – he confirmed it’s titled “The Movie Critic,” that the story takes place in 1977, and that it’s NOT about Pauline Kael.
No talent is attached as yet to the project which still does not have a studio home at this point.
Sony is quite likely to be a frontrunner following its distribution of Tarantino’s previous film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” in 2019. That film snagged two Oscars and grossed over $377 million worldwide.
