According to Variety, David Fincher is set to direct a spinoff to Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Brad Pitt will be coming back to reprise the role of stuntman Cliff Booth from the film. The idea for the movie came up when plans for The Movie Critic fell through, and now it’s expected to come to Netflix.

So far, the only thing we know about the story is that it’s, “said to take place in the ’70s and follow a film critic who wrote for a porn magazine.” Though it doesn’t seem like Booth is going to be the main character, but the novelization of the movie has confirmed that Cliff is sort of a movie buff.

Though Pitt is coming back, it doesn’t seem likely that other actors from the movie like Leonardo DiCaprio or Margot Robbie will make a return. That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if any more celebrities from around that era show up and interact with Cliff Booth—like that fight with Bruce Lee.

Though Tarantino usually writes movies for himself to direct, it’s going to be interesting to see a script from him go through the lens of David Fincher. It’s a combination of directors I never expected, but I’m excited to see what Fincher comes up with for the Cliffe Booth movie.

No release date has been set for the Once Upon a Time In Hollywood Sequel.

Talking to LA Times, Villeneuve reveals that phones aren’t allowed on his set (much like Christopher Nolan’s). He says:

“Cinema is an act of presence. When a painter paints, he has to be absolutely focused on the color he’s putting on the canvas. It’s the same with the dancer when he does a gesture. With a filmmaker, you have to do that with a crew, and everybody has to focus and be entirely in the present, listening to each other, being in relationship with each other. So cellphones are banned on my set too, since Day 1. It’s forbidden. When you say cut, you don’t want someone going to his phone to look at his Facebook account.”

When Villeneuve was asked about his policy on chairs though, he did share that a back problem had forced him to do more of Dune on his feet. He continues, “My cinematographer, Greig Fraser, and I decided to stand, to have minimal footprints so we could be flexible and go fast, to keep the blood flowing, to be awakened. No chairs for us. Maybe for the producers at the video village.”

With sets having to be one well-oiled machine most of he time, it would make sense for directors to try and minimize distractions. One fun rule about a Quentin Tarantino set is that nobody is allowed to fall asleep, lest they incur the wrath of ‘Big Jerry’.

For now, Villeneuve is gearing up for one more Dune movie to complete his trilogy. Fans don’t know exactly what to expect, but it’s said that he’s going to fully embrace the cautionary tale of Paul Atreides that flew over the heads of a lot of Frank Herbert fans.

Dune: Messiah is rumoured to be planning a release in December 2026.

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.

What’s funny is, with more being able to access the movie now, more positive reactions are starting to come out from casual movie goers; and the Folie a Deux managed to get the endorsement of one major filmmaker—Quentin Tarantino.

Talking to the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (via World of Reel) Tarantino talks about how he actually loved the movie and how Todd Phillips was an absolute madman for being able to pull the film off. Tarantino said, “I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking. But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is…  And I didn’t find it an intellectual exercise. I really got caught up into it.”

Tarantino even likened the movie’s Joker and Harley to his own characters Mickey and Mallory from Natural Born Killers, and thought the film was a kind of homage to his work the same way that the first Joker was an homage to Martin Scorsese’s earlier films.

If anything, Tarantino thought that the film was very meta in that Phillips himself may have been the Joker, being able to pull the rug from under the audience and the studio. He continues:

“Todd Phillips is the Joker. The Joker directed the movie. The entire concept, even him spending the studio’s money — he’s spending it like the Joker would spend it, all right? And then his big surprise gift — haha! — the the jack in the box, when he offers you his hand for a handshake and you get a buzzer with 10,000 volts shooting you — is the comic book geeks. He’s saying f— you to all of them. He’s saying f— you to the movie audience. He’s saying f— you to Hollywood. He’s saying f— you to anybody who owns any stock at DC and Warner Brothers […] And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un film de Joker, all right, is what it is. He is the Joker.”

Joker: Folie a Deux is now available on digital.

Of course, the film didn’t manage to push through, and while multiple people had things to say about why it didn’t move forward, Tarantino himself explained that a lot of the rumors coming out about him working on the project were just ‘misinformation.’

Talking to Bill Maher in his podcast (via SFFGazette), Tarantino confirms, “It’s never going to happen… There’s been so much misinformation about what it was going to be – nothing but misinformation. I live in a special zone and part of my zone is because I’m not on Instagram and Facebook, I’m not creating this constant dialogue with the world with what’s going on with my life.

“Consequently, if you’re Joe Schlomoka and you’re some transient reporter of some kind, if you hear Quentin is going to make a Star Trek movie or a make a movie called The Movie Critic, or any f–king thing, it’s a little bit like that guy who wrote the Howard Hughes biography that ended up being a hoax… The thing is, they can say anything.”

We don’t know specifically what happened when word was going around that Tarantino was set to direct a Trek movie, but it was said that he decided to back out on the project because he was considering only having strictly 10 movies under his belt—and he didn’t want the last one to be a franchise that he didn’t even come up with.

Then again, Tarantino himself has said that most of the stuff online concerning him and the Trek movie have been misinformation, so we should take that “10 movies” thing with a grain of salt.

For now, it looks like Paramount is still scrambling with how to approach Trek on the big screen. Multiple creators have come and gone with Star Trek 4, and now CBM is reporting that Toby Haynes (Andor) is set to make a prequel to Trek with Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant) developing a last movie for the Kelvin Timeline.

No announcement has been made for the next Trek movie that’s expected to hit theatres.

According to Deadline, Tarantino has decided to drop The Movie Critic as his 10^th and final film, and is going to be looking to do something else. We don’t know much about the movie, but it has been revealed that Brad Pitt was expected to return as a star—THR even says that he was going to reprise the role of Cliff Booth from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Tarantino is no doubt a respected filmmaker on the same level as Martin Scorsese, but he has been criticized for putting a lot of pressure on this ‘final movie’ of his. It was said that wanting to only have ten films is the reason he dropped out of making a Star Trek picture, and now it’s the reason why he isn’t making The Movie Critic.

Who knows, Tarantino has had a change of heart several times before. He was even supposed to not go forward with Hateful Eight when the script had leaked earlier—and we all know how that went down.

So is Tarantino going to only make ten films? Maybe he should be like Spielberg and start producing some projects with some younger directors? We’ll just have to wait and see.

We don’t know what direction Trek is going now when it comes to box office movies, but screenwriter Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) reveals a bit about what Tarantino was planning for his Trek and why he decided to walk away from the project.

Talking to Collider, Smith revealed that Tarantino’s Trek would have taken the franchise in a completely mature and different direction—not unlike what Thor: Ragnarok did for Marvel’s Thor films. He explains:

“I think his vision was just to go hard. It was a hard R. It was going to be some ‘Pulp Fiction’ violence… Not a lot of the language, we saved a couple things for just special characters to kind of drop that into the ‘Star Trek’ world, but it was just really the edginess and the kind of that Tarantino flair, man, that he was bringing to it. It would have been cool.”

Smith didn’t really go into specifics, but he also mentioned that Tarantino’s Star Trek would have also harkened to Guardians of the Galaxy on some level.

As to why the film didn’t push forward, it looked like Tarantino got caught up in the notion that he only ever wants to make 10 movies in his filmography—and he didn’t want Trek to be his last one. Smith continues, “”Quentin and I went back and forth, he was gonna do some stuff on it, and then he started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films… I remember we were talking, and he goes, ‘If I can just wrap my head around the idea that ‘Star Trek’ could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?’ And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk.”

As of now, Tarantino’s next film is called The Movie Critic which is said to be another inside look at the entertainment industry through Tarantino’s lens. Though a lot of fans are disappointed that Tarantino didn’t want to pursue Star Trek, you can’t deny that his solid filmography does speak for itself when it comes to Tarantino’s choices of projects.

Who knows, maybe Tarantino will change his mind down the line. We’ll just have to wait and see.

A new trailer has been dropped for the film, and it has everything you can expect from a Roth movie about pilgrims and turkey. Watch this:

The synopsis reads:

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays…or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?

We know that Halloween and Christmas dominate the holiday film genre, but once in a while we also get some films focused solely on American Thanksgiving. What’s interesting is, the movie is actually based on the faux trailer that Roth directed for Grindhouse which also featured him (he’s the guy getting head in the car):

No doubt, this Thanksgiving movie looks to be asking the audience to watch it with a cynical lens, and with Roth on the helm, we should expect all kinds of human suffering to be portrayed onscreen. How has this guy not been approached to direct a Saw film?

Watch out for Thanksgiving when it comes to cinemas on Nov. 17.

Taratino’s podcast The Video Archives Podcast just shared the announcement that former movie star Rick Dalton has passed away. Here’s the post:

We are saddened by the news of the passing of actor Rick Dalton, best known for his roles in the hit TV series Bounty Law and The Fireman trilogy.

Rick passed away peacefully in his home in Hawaii and is survived by his wife Francesca.

RIP Rick Dalton 1933-2023 pic.twitter.com/j51sNEh7AP

— The Video Archives Podcast (@VideoArchives) May 19, 2023

Immediately fans and other movie accounts started posting their ‘tributes’ out to Dalton, celebrating his fictional career. Even the New Beverly Cinema (which is owned by Tarantino) decided to get past the internet, and posted up a tribute to Dalton on their marquee.

IN LOVING MEMORY
RICK DALTON
1933 – 2023
"A WONDERFUL ACTOR" pic.twitter.com/YnBaJXK9Hy

— New Beverly Cinema (@newbeverly) May 20, 2023

Here are some other posts going around:

https://twitter.com/SolaceCinema/status/1659649566000422978

Probably my favorite part of the bit is the reactions where they try to ‘cancel’ Dalton based on the events of the film, from his association to Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) to him burning one of the Manson kids in his pool.

Sorry y’all. You can mourn Rick Dalton but you can’t ignore the fact he enabled Cliff Booth to continue to work in the industry despite what he did. That’s hugely problematic. Don’t believe me? Just Google “Cliff Booth” and “Wife”! pic.twitter.com/G7iDNqhIs7

— Reyna Cervantes (in her Yellowjackets era) (@Jfcdoomblade) May 19, 2023

reminder that rick d*lton MURDERED this woman and he should NOT be celebrated pic.twitter.com/RwFbWX6r0p

— jeremy (@jeremylovesyall) May 20, 2023

So far everyone is enjoying Tarantino’s little update on the OUATIH canon, but it would be great if we also found out what happened to some of the other characters. You think Sharon Tate would have lived to 2023 in this Tarantino’s alternate timeline?

To further remember Dalton’s legacy, you can check him out in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Miramax has sued Tarantino on the grounds that his move to sell Pulp Fiction NFTs will be meddling with deals that the studio is currently putting into place. They wrote in the lawsuit:

“Tarantino’s conduct has forced Miramax to bring this lawsuit against a valued collaborator in order to enforce, preserve, and protect its contractual and intellectual property rights relating to one of Miramax’s most iconic and valuable film properties… Left unchecked, Tarantino’s conduct could mislead others into believing Miramax is involved in his venture. And it could also mislead others into believing they have the rights to pursue similar deals or offerings, when in fact Miramax holds the rights needed to develop, market, and sell NFTs relating to its deep film library.”

On Tarantino’s side, his lawyer claims that the director is acting within his “Reserved Rights”, specifically pertaining to his right to “screenplay publication.”

With NFTs becoming a highly-valued commodity these days, it’s Tarantino’s move that has actually started turning heads when it came to monetizing exclusive studio content. If people would buy special editions for a few extra scenes, what more would they pay for an NFT?

Talking to GQ, Tarantino was asked about his fans calling out his foot fetish, to which he replies:

“I don’t take it seriously. There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies. That’s just good direction. Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director. And Hitchcock was accused of it and Sofia Coppola has been accused of it.”

If anything, I don’t think fans are taking any offense when it comes to Tarantino’s fondness for feet and at this point they just accept it as something that he likes to put into his films. That’s also a big reason why fans thought Tarantino was actually referencing himself with Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood because all the foot shots were so gratuitous that Tarantino had to be aware of it.

For now, Tarantino’s future in cinema is still up in the air, as he looks to be focusing on books for now (hence the article on GQ). With Tarantino having a very solid filmography with his career so far, he has said that he’s nervous that he could slip up going toward his last few films. Hopefully that won’t be the case down the line.

For now, you can watch out for Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood novelization now out in stores.

Talking to USA Today, Tarantino’s mother Connie Zastoupil said about Tarantino:

“Regarding my son Quentin – I support him, I’m proud of him and love him and his growing new family. It gave me great joy to dance at his wedding and receive his news upon the birth of my Grandson Leo.”

For context, in an appearance on The Moment podcast (via IndieWire), Tarantino had shared a story about his mother scolding him for writing screenplays when he wasn’t paying attention in school. He said:

“She was bitching at me about that and then in the middle of her little tirade, she said, ‘Oh, and by the way, this little ‘writing career,’ with the finger quotes and everything. This little ‘writing career’ that you’re doing? That shit is fucking over,’… She meant you just can’t do that in class when you should be doing something else.”

Tarantino had then said that he promised himself that he won’t give his mother anything that he earned from his ‘writing career,’ and so far he said he kept that promise. “No Cadillac, no house. There are consequences for your words as you deal with your children.”

While this seems kind of harsh on the director’s part, he did say that he does help his mother where it counts, like when she had ‘a jam with the IRS.’ I’m sure he’s still thankful for his mother raising him and cultivating his love for movies at an early age.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Harley Quinn actress Margot Robbie has been cast in Anderson’s latest project. We don’t have any details about the project yet, but we do know that the movie is set to start shooting later this month.

Robbie is a newcomer when it comes to the pool of actors that Anderson has previously worked with. Besides Hanks, the film’s cast also includes Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, and Tilda Swinton.

Recently Robbie has been nabbing roles with a lot of high-end directors from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood to James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. She’s also proven to be a great producer herself and has also been cast in the Barbie film with Greta Gerwig at the helm.

We’ve yet to get any updates on Anderson’s next movie, but if anything, The French Dispatch looks to be Anderson taking his style to the limit, what with the framed narratives, symmetrical shots, and colorful sets. I think the star-studded cast which includes Timothee Chalamet, Frances McDormand, and Jeffrey Wright is also worth mentioning.

The French Dispatch gets a wide release on Oct. 22. You can catch Robbie in The Suicide Squad now available in theaters and on HBO Max.

Talking to The Big Picture podcast (via /Film), Tarantino has shared that he wants to remake First Blood, but this time based on the original novel by David Morrell. He says:

“When David O. Russell talked about doing ‘The Fighter,’ he was over himself and over being the auteur… He just wanted to make a good movie that people are going to enjoy. There was something really refreshing about him saying that, and that perspective. If I just wanted to make a good movie, that I knew would be good, I would take David Morrell’s novel for ‘First Blood’ and do the novel. Not the movie that was made out of ‘First Blood.’ I would do the novel.”

Just in case you didn’t know, First Blood – which came out in 1982– was the film that introduced audiences to the character of John Rambo played by Sylvester Stallone. Though Rambo is pretty much a pop-culture icon today, it would be interesting to see how Tarantino would handle the story.

Here’s his fancast for the film:

“Kurt Russell would play the sheriff, and [Adam Driver] would play Rambo. Every time I read it, the dialogue is so fantastic in the David Morrell novel that you’re reading it out loud. It would be so good. But now I want to do more than that. But if it was just about to make a good movie, that’s out there.”

After teasing working on a Star Trek movie, I doubt that Tarantino would want to make his last film an adaptation. Then again, with Tarantino notorious for ‘borrowing’ elements from other things, a war epic adaptation of First Blood would be interesting.