The first details have been revealed about Quentin Tarantino’s new film, four years after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. This time the Pulp Fiction director is to devote himself to a film legend
What kind of film will cult director Quentin Tarantino make next? That’s what fans have been wondering at least since the release of Once Upon a Time in Hollwood. Four years later, the first hints about his new project have been released. There is a working title, an era in which the film is set and even a possible real-life legend that could be at the centre of it.
This is what is known about Quentin Tarantino’s new film
Quentin Tarantino’s new film has the working title The Movie Critic. This is according to an exclusive report by industry publication The Hollywood-Reporter which was confirmed by Deadline. According to the report, Tarantino has completed the script.
With Pauline Kael, Tarantino would make a controversial critic the heroine
Kael published film reviews from the 1950s onwards and made a name for herself with her crisp, emphatically subjective perspective, her legendary slating and her defence of misunderstood films. Her put-down of 2001: A Space Odyssey is as legendary as her appreciation of Bonnie and Clyde, which was to become one of the most influential films of the New Hollywood.
Pauline Kael caused controversy not only through polemical reviews (she called Dirty Harry with Clint Eastwood “fascist”, for example). Her much-criticised (and partly refuted) essay Raising Kane on the making of Citizen Kane set debates in motion (David Fincher’s Netflix film Mank builds on it in parts). From the 1980s onwards, accusations of homophobia accumulated in her reviews.
Pauline Kael inspired numerous film critics, who were called “Paulettes” by their opponents, and led no fewer authors to explicitly distance themselves from Kael’s school of criticism. In any case, she long occupied a unique role in male-dominated film criticism, which also left its mark on Tarantino. The filmmaker declared in 1994:
