Quentin Tarantino is pulling the curtain back on the real reason he decided to scrap The Movie Critic during pre-production.
During an episode of The Church of Tarantino podcast, the director explained the “crazy” reason he “pulled the plug” on what was initially intended to be his cinematic swan song .
The Movie Critic was originally conceived as an eight-part TV series, but at some point Tarantino decided to shift the concept to a feature-length film script instead.
“No one’s waiting for this thing per se. I mean, I can do it whenever I want. I mean, it’s already written. So okay, let me just not start it right now. Let me try writing it as a movie and let me see if it’s better that way. And I was like, ‘Oh, okay, no, I think this is going to be the movie.’ And then it wasn’