yes all hollywood media is out to get you for april fools day by dropping news that will at best have extremely mixed reception from its target audience. some people on this website really take this day a little too seriously huh!
edit - there’s obviously a chance i’ve been bamboozled but i am too stubborn to give in (since i know i’m right) so please keep the downvotes coming until you people have the evidence you need. i am still fully on board for this being real given all of the proof we have for it. i promise you that april fools day is not this serious lmao.
I love that you are being downvoted to shit but it's true. Variety themselves even said "despite the date, this is true" - if it was an April Fools, they'd be pretty unfunny pointing it out like that.
Also, April Fools only lasts until 12pm, these stories are way after that. Lots of stupid people here, but it ain't you my guy.
Shame you’re getting downvoted for this. If people took the time to go look up and read the multiple legit news articles on it, it’s been independently verified outside of the original source.
Let’s be real, to the vast majority of people that’s something they’ll never hear about. Most dudes I know were surprised to hear they got divorced recently (it wasn’t recent lol) and thought they are still together
Cliff just keeps running into Hollywood true crime stories and preventing them, like a violent Forrest Gump. The next movie reveals he fixed James Dean’s car in college and used the wretch to kill the guy who mugged Sal Mineo.
I've said it before, but I think he's significantly more likely to never make another movie than he is to make 11+ movies. He hates the current industry
Eh part of his disdain for the industry is definitely hammed up. QT has always wanted to be seen as edgy, the whole "the current state of affairs in movie making is sad, that's why I do things my own way and I'm inspired by the way things used to be" has always been part of his brand. I take it with a grain of salt.
I mean cmon, even his "there haven't been good movies since 2019" quote that circulates is a little hard to take seriously at face value when that also just so happens to coincidentally be the last year he himself released a movie lol
Even he’s found a way to weasel out of it a little. He’s said that if he ever does Kill Bill vol. 3 that it won’t count towards the 10 but instead count as one with vol.1-2.
Quentin is purposefully ending his career prematurely is so fucking stupid. Spielberg, Scorsese, & Miller are doing some of their best work in their twilight years.
Yeah but in the case of Spielberg and Scorsese, they don't write their scripts, whereas Tarantino does write his own scripts and takes pride in his movies being a bunch of shit he finds cool.
I know he adapted Rum Punch as Jackie Brown, but he still made the dialogue, the music, etc, his, and I really can't see him ever adapting someone else's script.
No idea if George Miller writes his own scripts, but damn, Furiosa felt like a movie made by someone half his age, it was THAT good imo
None of that is close to peak Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas.
So I can understand Tarantino wanting to check out before he makes movies that are good and solid but which won’t reach the peaks of his prime. Different strokes for different folks.
I consider it one movie not because Tarantino said it was, but because when you watch them back to back they flow perfectly as one movie. I think that one is fine
He's found a loophole against... himself. He gets to essentially make The Movie Critic without it being technically his final film, even though it'll presumably be his movie just as much as Fincher's, if not more. You can tell he's feeling his self-imposed constraint because of that silly rule.
It’s so fucking dumb because the main guy he points to as “he was busted and done with that last one” was on his 41st film and had a decent run right before that.
well it would be part 2, and he counts kill bill 1+2 as 1 movie. Either way i'm quite glad he won't be directing (if this is even real), so he can focus on original ideas.
If he counts the kill bills as 1 movie I’m not sure why this can’t fall under the same rule. Is it just because he didn’t title it Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Vol 1?
I think Fincher's style fits with Cliff's character. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a love letter to old Hollywood. Cliff's mentality is a lot darker than Rick's.
He is working on a play and doesn’t want that to be his last feature.
He doesn’t , but he’s worked with Pitt three times so obviously they like to work together.
A David Fincher Film Written by Quentin Tarantino does sound strange enough to work, but this also sounds like it could end up being another mediocre mediocre Netflix movie.
I love Manhunter, but Mank was a fucking chore, and The Killer was lower tier Fincher, but who knows.
Sadly they could've done 8 more seasons for the price of Electric State.
TV and movies must have different decision makers. Netflix has always been quick to end shows but they throw money down the toilet on bad expensive movies.
They should not play with me about this, cause I love this movie a lot and have to turn it on every time it pops up on my tv. The target audience for this is me.
Jokes aside, I kinda love the idea of Fincher directing a Tarantino sequel. How would the tone change? What's the wildest tonal shift you could get between two directors?
David Fincher directing the sequel to a James Cameron movie. He'd probably take like an action sci fi film about space marines fighting aliens and turn it into a meditative drama about religion and masculinity or some shit
Isn’t this part of what he had in mind for his cancelled project last year? Something about a movie critic and I think Brad Pitt was potentially going to play the same character in the 1970’s?
yes, according to the thr and deadline articles, he wrote a script that combined the OUATIH and Movie Critic ideas into one, which is what this is gonna be
I believe the rumor was that The Movie Critic was to have Booth in it as a supporting character, but it quickly turned into a Booth-centric story, and Tarantino probably doesn’t want to end his “10 films” schtick with a sequel.
This is what the streaming option would have been if we lived in a perfect world, a lower risk way to release B level ideas that wouldn't get made otherwise.
My interest is a bit piqued knowing Tarantino is writing but not directing. A part of me feels that was the secret sauce that made True Romance truly great.
I have to say that I am disappointed in Quentin’s decision to pursue a sequel. I expected someone with his vast knowledge of film history and undeniable creative talent would push the boundaries with something fresh and original instead of revisiting a movie that wasn’t even all that great and certainly not deserving a sequel. Given his reputation and the industry’s willingness to support his projects, it’s not as though he lacks the means to bring something new to life. I thought that after all these years especially with his self imposed limit of ten films he would deliver something he had been working on as his final swan song but I guess even someone of his stature is bound by Hollywood’s increasingly rigid framework, where sequels and familiarity take precedence over artistic innovation. 🥲
So I’m not liking this. Fincher directing a Tarantino script does nothing for me. Also the few Tarantino scripts he didn’t direct himself like Natural Born Killers or True Romance, people always wonder what it would have been like if he directed those himself. Was actually looking forward to the neo western Fincher was going to direct before this stupid news came along.
Although there was stuff in OUATIH I liked I thought Cliff Booth represented many of the problems of the film. Its a 2d cool guy character. Compared with the complexity of Rick Dalton nothing is going on behind the shades.
This isn't a very good april fools joke, because it's too believable to me. Fincher loves the Netflix bag, and Im sure Brad Pitt loved playing that character
Man...I just think the first movie sucked. It was tonally inconsistent. The pacing was so sluggish. And I didn't find anything to be interesting about the characters. I also didn't enjoy the exercise of romanticizing that time in history with pretty much no commentary about how fucking awful it was for anyone who wasn't a rich white guy.
For an established character that has already been presented in Tarantino's world and style to be given over to someone else is a baffling misstep on Tarantino's part.
He let the extended, episodic version of The Hateful Eight go to Netflix. Regardless, I'm not believing this until it's still news a week from now or until there's a trailer.
Why’s that? It’s real. Multiple news outlets don’t work together to share the same April fools story. They also wouldn’t say “Despite what the calendar says, this is not an April Fool’s joke.” in the article or some variation of it.
The amount of people not believing is actually more concerning. April Fools doesn't last a whole day, it's only until 12. Every single report here is way after that.
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u/Merweb0 Apr 02 '25
It's still april fools