There are a lot of things we don't know about Quentin Tarantino's tenth and final film. We don't know when he's planning on releasing it, or what's likely to happen in it. We don't know who's circling the cast list, or whether any of Tarantino's old pals will make one last appearance for old time's sake.
"I want to stop at a certain point," he said in 2012. "Directors don’t get better as they get older. Usually the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end. I am all about my filmography, and one bad film fucks up three good ones."'s sources say it'll be based on a script Tarantino's written calledalso says it'll be "set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead". So far, so late Tarantino.
It'll apparently be based on the life and work of the essayist, novelist and film reviewer Pauline Kael. Kael was a hero of Tarantino's, and one of the writers who got him into film in the first place with her evocative, literary critiques of American cinema for theAside from that, we know very little.
Tarantino's not alone in doing this. Alfred Hitchcock, for instance, also liked to find various different ways of adding an extra little frisson to his films.
And the one thing a retirement invites – after the pageantry of the final film, the last farewell, and lots of warm tributes to the formerwho became a commercial juggernaut – is an unexpected return. The only thing which could be bigger than Tarantino walking away from filmmaking would be Tarantino coming back to it after a spell away doing other things. Tarantino loves Hollywood, and Hollywood loves a comeback.