Legendary director Quentin Tarantino famously plans to make just 10 films. With 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood serving as his ninth, the filmmaker only has one slot left before his self-imposed retirement.

The Movie Critic, which was rumored to be a high-brow meta-critique of the film industry and slated to be his final project, was officially cancelled in April of last year during pre-production, with little explanation provided.

Speculation swirled that Tarantino succumbed to legacy pressures and canned the flick in the pursuit of going out on a career-defining high. However, the director has now offered a far simpler explanation.

“It was too much like the last one,” Tarantino said during a lengthy interview with The Church of Tarantino podcast.

The Movie Critic was set to

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