Quentin Tarantino’s Next Project May Be A Play Instead Of A Movie

Quentin Tarantino’s new script may not be played on the big screen but on the stage, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Interest in the filmmaker’s cinematic follow-up to 2019’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, has heightened as of late, with it originally being reported the previous summer that a project called The Movie Critic was being developed as his tenth and final film. Set to star Brad Pitt in the pair’s third collaboration, Tarantino ultimately pulled the plug in April 2024 and has since been writing and developing other projects.

Now, in an interview with Elvis Mitchell at the Sundance Film Festival, the director teased what he’s currently working on: “I’m writing a play. It’s probably going to be the next thing I end up doing. “If it’s a fiasco I probably won’t turn it into a movie.”

Tarantino went on to explain his reluctance to not make another film right away, his reasoning being his children: “The idea of jumping on a voyage when they’re too young to understand it is not enticing to me. I kind of want to not do whatever movie I end up doing until my son is at least 6. That way he’ll know what’s going on, he’ll be there, and it will be a memory for the rest of his life”.

Tarantino followed up with a second reason, in typical fiery passion, complaining about the film industry’s shrinking theatrical window and jumping to streaming: “That’s a big fucking deal pulling a play off, and I don’t know if I can. So here we go. That’s a challenge, a genuine challenge, but making movies? Well, what the fuck is a movie now?”