Quentin Tarantino has to plan his next move carefully. The filmmaker once vowed to retire after directing 10 films, and 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood left just one slot on his dance card.
What might have been Tarantino’s 10th and final film, The Movie Critic, was shelved in 2024, and nothing has been announced to replace it. That hasn’t stopped the director from building out the Tarantinoverse in other ways: he published a novel in 2021 to accompany Once Upon a Time, and he’s apparently focused on screenwriting ever since. Writing a script isn’t the same as directing, after all, and that means Tarantino can develop as many stories as he wants, as long as he hands the scripts off.
