Maybe the very best cause for Tarantino to do a Kill Invoice prequel is that it could power him to rethink his arbitrary 10 film rule. As each cinephile is aware of and laments, Tarantino has claimed that he would solely make 10 films earlier than retiring, for concern of constant previous his prime. As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood is film quantity 9, which implies the following one can be his final.
A number of attainable tenth movies have been pitched together with, most infamously, a Star Trek movie that riffs on the Unique Sequence gangster episode “A Piece of the Motion.” However for a very long time, Tarantino has mentioned that his final movie can be The Film Critic. Set within the Seventies, The Film Critic would have targeted on a author for a pornographic journal and would have probably concerned among the revisionist historical past he delivered to Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood.
Initially slated for a 2025 launch, The Film Critic didn’t materialize. Whereas meaning we don’t get to take pleasure in a brand new Tarantino film this 12 months, it additionally implies that the director has to rethink his technique—and presumably rethink his 10 film rule on the identical time.
Or will he? We all know that he’s making a sequel to As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood, with Brad Pitt returning as stunt man Cliff Sales space. However whereas the movie, tentatively titled The Adventures of Cliff Sales space, may have a Tarantino script, he’s turned directing duties to a different top-level expertise, David Fincher. Maybe one other filmmaker would be the one to deliver the Kill Invoice origin movie to fruition.
Or perhaps it gained’t be a film in any respect. In spite of everything, Tarantino’s feedback concerning the origin movie got here throughout a screening of “Yuki’s Revenge,” a brief movie that he wrote and directed, and which stars Uma Thurman because the Bride, created fully inside Fortnite. One would assume that “Yuki’s Revenge,” developed on a script fragment from the unique film, was simply a part of the promotional cycle for Kill Invoice: The Entire Bloody Affair—the movie that mixes each components of Kill Invoice and provides a brand new part—which releases this week. However the occasion clearly has Tarantino fascinated with extra tales he can inform.
Tales he can inform… ultimately. “I’ve received different issues to do proper now,” he admitted when speaking concerning the prequel, and he ended his dialogue by asking, “Will I dwell lengthy sufficient to do this? That continues to be to be seen.”
