If you are desperately waiting for Quentin Tarantino to break out his next — and supposedly final — film, here's some sad news: it will take a while, perhaps a year longer.
There were earlier reports about Tarantino going to make a 70s-set movie called 'The Movie Critic', but the Pulp Fiction director later said that he was no longer making it. Now, it seems Tarantino wants to wait sometime before embarking on his next filmmaking adventure. He shared this at the 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival.
“I’m in no hurry to jump into production right now, I’ve been doing that for 30 years. I kinda want to not end up doing whatever movie I end up doing until my son is 6," he told the audience, adding that he is currently interested in making a play which, if it turns into a "smash hit", could be his "last" movie.
One of the reasons Tarantino is feeling this way is the short window between a movie's theatrical run and its streaming date. “What the f*ck is a movie that plays in four weeks and by the second week you watch it on television? I didn’t get into it (filmmaking) for diminishing returns,” said the maverick filmmaker, explaining why live theater is a more enticing option.
“They pay a lot of f*cking money to get into that seat. There’s no f*cking taping it. There’s no cell phone. You own the audience for that time. They are all yours; they are in the palm of your hand. It’s not just about doing art, it’s about wowing them; it’s about giving them a great night out. This to me is f*cking existing. It’s the last frontier,” he said.
Tarantino last directed Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, released in 2019. It starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino and Margot Robbie. He later wrote a novelisation of the movie that expands the story of the movie with situations written separately for the book.
