While there are a bunch of younger auteur directors making names for themselves lately, there are still some that continue to stay relevant well into their old age like Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. One ‘old’ director that has an incoming project is Ridley Scott, and he has a message for another senior director who is looking to quite making movies after his next one.
Talking to THR, Scott was asked about Quentin Tarantino and his plans to retire after he makes his tenth and last movie. ‘I don’t believe it,” Scott said, “I don’t fucking believe that bullshit. Shut up and go make another movie. Quentin wrote a few things for my brother. They got along great. I’m not sure I’ve met him.”
For context, Scott is 86-years-old, and Tarantino is in his early 60s. It looks like Scott still has a bunch of projects he would like to work on, but Tarantino has been saying for a while that he could stop at 10 movies and maybe just pursue something else afterwards like writing books or maybe television.
To be fair, Tarantino did have a point that there seems to be a trend with great directors dying with their last films being duds; and maybe stopping at 10 could solidify Tarantino’s ‘legacy’ as a filmmaker and allow him to pursue other things. But as Scott and Scorsese have proven, if you’re passionate about something, you could still keep doing it until your body gives out—just look at Clint Eastwood and Juror #2 which he directed in his 90s.
Who knows, maybe Tarantino could be great in television. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Catch Scott’s Gladiator II when it hits theaters on Nov. 22.
