According to a listing on the Film & Television Industry Alliance database, the final film from Quentin Tarantino is starting production December 1, 2025.
A screenshot from Kill Bill – YouTube, RokettoJanpu
However, unnamed sources tell World of Reel that Tarantino has yet to finish his screenplay, in which case production is unlikely to start so soon. This isn’t a Marvel film (which seem to tend toward starting without finished scripts) we’re talking about, after all, but Tarantino’s supposed swan song.
The Day The Movie Critic Died
Quentin Tarantino has often said that the tenth movie he directs will be his final film. In March 2023, The Hollywood Reporter revealed Tarantino was preparing to start production on The Movie Critic that fall.
Quentin Tarantino is putting together what sources say is being billed as his final movie https://t.co/TCFedNlmeS pic.twitter.com/xe0M12WxID
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 14, 2023
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However, production never started, and on April 17, 2024, Deadline reported that The Movie Critic was being scrapped. Sources told them, “He simply changed his mind,” and was “going back to the drawing board to figure out what that last movie will be.”
Whatever the reason, the world would have to wait for the final film of Quentin Tarantino.
Once Upon a Time… Tarantino Defied Hollywood
During the press tour for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Tarantino addressed an accusation of Margot Robbie’s speaking role in the film being limited, saying, “Well, I just reject your hypothesis.”
When asked about Margot Robbie’s limited role in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ Quentin Tarantino replied: “Well I just reject your hypothesis” https://t.co/xACQXjyBu8 pic.twitter.com/adQkYYV7ms
— Variety (@Variety) May 23, 2019
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This may have been the first sign that Tarantino was taking issue with modern Hollywood. Since the release of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, he published the nonfiction book Cinema Speculation, a love-letter to the gritty and violent genre films of the late 60s and 70s that inspire him.
In his book, Tarantino writes, “During times of great political turmoil, modern political issues are always conveniently found in America’s past.”
The End isn’t Happily Ever After
“I didn’t get into this for diminishing returns,” Tarantino said at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. “I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last f—ing year of movies.”
Notably, he hasn’t released a movie since 2019. In the interview at Sundance, he expressed his frustration with the streaming model that rushes movies out of theaters.
A screenshot from Pulp Fiction – YouTube, Boxoffice+
If there’s one thing Tarantino avoids, it’s rushing. But his deliberate approach to writing completed scripts isn’t the only thing that sets him apart from Marvel. According to Variety, in a 2022 interview with the 2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast, he bemoaned the “Marvel-ization of Hollywood movies.” He explained that characters, like Captain America, have become the stars, not the actors.
Cinema Speculation
If the final film from Quentin Tarantino is actually starting production at the end of this year, could it be that he’s returned to The Movie Critic?
It wouldn’t be the first time he’s picked up a script he’s previously cast aside, as he famously did with The Hateful Eight.
Quentin Tarantino sits for an interview – YouTube, Channel 4 News
Regardless of when we get his final film, the bigger question is, what will cinema look like without an auteur like Tarantino? Given his dismissal of questions suggesting a lack of representation, and his passion for the theatrical experience, movie stars and all, perhaps the opportunity for his final film has already passed him by.
What do you think? Will we ever get a final film from Quentin Tarantino? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
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