Quentin Tarantino’s Final Flick Will Bring ‘70s Films Back to Life

Like he has done before, Quentin Tarantino looks to be recreating and throwing nods to some iconic movies in his reportedly final flick.

Paul Schrader recently dished about Tarantino’s upcoming tenth and rumored final film, spilling new details on how far to ensure The Movie Critic is an epic spectacle for cinephiles. Schrader tells Indiewire that the Pulp Fiction director wants to recreate older movie scenes in The Movie Critic, as he did for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

Schrader spills,

“May have changed – but about a month ago, he was making a film had something to do with filmmaking in the ’70s. And part of this, he’s going to use clips from movies from the ’70s, but he’s also gonna remake movies from the ’70s. And he asked me, ‘Can I redo the ending of Rolling Thunder?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, go for it. I’d love to see you redo the ending of Rolling Thunder.’ Who knows whether he actually will or not? But it was something that was tickling his imagination in a very Tarantino-esque way.”

Tarantino is working on his tenth film, The Movie Critic. While many believe that legendary New Yorker critic Pauline Kael may have inspired the 1970s-set movie, the filmmaker has denied those claims.

Taratino Confirms Plot For His Next Film

The director told Deadline that “The Movie Critic” will begin “pre-pre-production” this June, with Tarantino looking for an actor around 35 years old to play the lead. “The Movie Critic” is based on a “porno rag” journalist whom Tarantino read growing up working as a vending machine restocker. The film is set in 1977 Southern California, with a character arc similar to that of Robert De Niro’s as Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver.”

There are also hints that the lead might be based on underground critic William Margold.

For “The Movie Critic,” the magazine will be fictionalized as “The Popstar Pages.” the feature is

“based on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.”

As for casting, Tarantino noted that he is looking for a male American star in his mid-30s, noting it will be a new collaboration and not a longtime collaborator.

“I haven’t decided yet but it’s going to be somebody in the 35-year-old ball park. It’ll definitely be a new leading man for me. I do have an idea of somebody I can imagine doing it really well…”

Tarantino’s writings under the pseudonym of Jim Sheldon on the New Beverly website have gone totally under the radar. This made-up character is said to be a critic for the Hollywood Press (a cheap 70's porno magazine that featured mainstream movie criticism).

Tarantino has, more or less, admitted that Sheldon is based on Marigold — who he brings up in his book “Cinema Speculation” during the chapter on Paul Schrader’s “Hardcore”.

In the final years of his life, Margold had his own blog where he mentioned how Tarantino was an avid fan of his film criticsm.

Paul Schrader is currently promoting his latest film, Master Gardener.

Master Gardener follows Narvel Roth (award-winner Joel Edgerton), the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill (three-time Academy Award® nominee Sigourney Weaver). When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel’s spartan existence, unlocking dark secrets from a buried violent past that threaten them all.

Master Gardener arrives in cinemas on May 19th in the US and on May 26th in the UK.