Tarantino has in the past praised Pitt as ‘one of the last remaining big-screen movie stars.’
The Movie Critic is a Los Angeles-based film set in 1977, following a critic who works for a fictional magazine called ‘The Popstar Pages.’
According to the cult filmmaker, the protagonist is ‘based on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.’
‘He was very rude, you know. He cursed. He used racial slurs. But his shit was really funny. He was as rude as hell,’ Tarantino said.
He also described the character as ‘a very good critic, who was cynical as hell.’
He said that his reviews were ‘a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle might be if he were a film critic.’ He made these comments to Deadline at the Cannes film festival last year, where ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ had premiered.
Pitt’s involvement in the film is not yet confirmed, as he is currently working on an Apple-produced Formula One racing movie with director Joseph Kosinski, who also helmed Top Gun: Maverick.
Pitt also has another racing movie in the works, with Javier Bardem and Damson Idris, which has no title yet.
Pitt is also slated to join Ocean’s Eleven co-star George Clooney in the Apple thriller ‘Wolfs.’
Tarantino has said that he wants the lead of The Movie Critic to be’“somebody in the 35-year-old ball park’ and ‘a new leading man for me.’
The Movie Critic is likely to start filming either at the end of this year or in early 2025.
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