Quentin Tarantino’s Final Film Will Reportedly Remake Part of This Unexpected Psychological Thriller
Sharai Bohannon
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The internet was just given a clue about Quentin Tarantino’s tenth and final movie. This unexpected update on The Movie Critic came from a surprising source. Filmmaker Paul Schrader was being interviewed in the French magazine Le Monde when he let it slip that Tarantino asked his permission to recreate a clip from one of his movies.
In the interview, Schrader said,
“Quentin will insert extracts from films from the 1970s. And he will also make his own versions of films from that era. He asked my permission to shoot the ending of Rolling Thunder, by John Flynn, as I had written it, in the original screenplay — before it was completely rewritten and watered down.”
For the uninitiated, Rolling Thunder was a 1977 psychological action thriller starring William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, and Linda Haynes. The screenplay was co-written by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould. It is currently streaming on Pluto TV and Tubi.
In the film,
“A Vietnam veteran who returns home after years in a POW camp, Maj. Charles Rane is treated as a hero, but his family proves to be distant. When thugs invade his home to steal silver coins that Rane received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him, his wife, and his son for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.”
This would not be the filmmaker’s first time recreating scenes for his movie. He even did it as recently as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He is also no stranger to rewriting history like he did in Inglourious Basterds. So, it is interesting that both habits will not be forgotten in his last hurrah.
Previously, Quentin Tarantino told the press that The Movie Critic would be set in California in 1977. He said it’s “based on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.” – Deadline
The filmmaker also shared with Deadline that the idea is inspired by an adult magazine he discovered at a job. The magazine he refused to name also covered movies, and that section caught his eye.
Tarantino elaborated, telling Deadline,
“He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic. I think he was a very good critic. He was as cynical as hell. His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle [Robert DeNiro’s character in Taxi Driver] might be if he were a film critic.”
We are excited to see how all these pieces fit together in The Movie Critic. We are also geeked to see what other classic films might be recreated for the project. Let us know if this tantalizing tidbit made you even more excited to see Quentin Tarantino’s next film at @DreadCentral.
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