What Will Be Tarantino’s 10th and Final Film?

Posted on 7 juni 2025 by Jeppe Kleijngeld

It is well established that Quentin Tarantino wants to complete his career as director with a total of 10 films. With Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as his ninth, that that leaves just one final movie to cap off an iconic career.

Tarantino has taken long breaks between projects before. After Jackie Brown (1997), he didn’t return with another feature until Kill Bill: Vol. 1 in 2003. So the current six-year gap since Once Upon a Time in Hollywood isn’t unusual, but fans are still eagerly waiting for news.

In 2023, it looked like Tarantino had settled on his swan song: The Movie Critic. The film was to center on a character inspired by a real-life reviewer for an adult magazine Tarantino encountered as a teenager while restocking porno mag vending machines. During his work, Tarantino said he came to really appreciate the writing of this film critic.

“He was as cynical as hell. His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle might be if he were a film critic”, Tarantino said. Tarantino wanted an actor he had never worked with as the main character and Brad Pitt was said to be in talks to join the cast, though not as the title critic. The project sounded promising, but in 2024, Tarantino shelved it for artistic reasons. Just like that, The Movie Critic was off the table.

There was also buzz about Tarantino tackling a Star Trek film – an unusual move, given his preference for original stories (with Jackie Brown, adapted from Elmore Leonard, being the lone exception). But on the ReelBlend podcast, he suggested that a Star Trek film perhaps wouldn’t ‘count’ as his tenth. That project, too, now seems dead.

So what’s next? According to The Hollywood Reporter, while rewriting The Movie Critic, Tarantino toyed with an ambitious idea: a ‘farewell metaverse’ in which characters from his past films might reappear in a ‘movie within a movie’ format – either as their original characters or as fictionalized versions of the actors who played them. But for now, that’s just speculation.

In my DVD collection, I left over a single place for Tarantino’s final film. His filmography as director so far: 1. Reservoir Dogs, 2. Pulp Fiction, 3. Jackie Brown, 4. Kill Bill (counting as one film), 5. Death Proof, 6. Inglourious Basterds, 7. Django Unchained, 8. The Hateful Eight, and 9. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

The only concrete Tarantino-related project currently in the pipeline is The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth, a spin-off from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In this film, Brad Pitt’s character – stuntman and all-around tough guy Cliff Booth – becomes a Hollywood studio fixer. The film is being directed by David Fincher for Netflix, marking the first time since From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) that Tarantino is writing but not directing a film.

So what about the final film? At the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Tarantino addressed this very question. “I don’t want to rush into production”, he said. “I’ve been in a hurry for the last 30 years, but not right now.” The reason? His family. “My son turns five next month, and my daughter is two and a half. The idea of taking on a huge project when my kids are so young doesn’t appeal to me.”

Tarantino added that he wants to wait until his son is at least six. “That way, he’ll know what’s going on, he’ll be there, and it’ll be a memory for the rest of his life.” That could mean production starts sometime next year, but only if inspiration strikes.

Interestingly, Tarantino revealed at Sundance that he’s currently working on a stage play. While he didn’t share any details, he hinted that if the play turns out well, it might be adapted into his final film. “If it’s a fiasco, it’s just a play. But if it succeeds, maybe it becomes the movie.”

So there you have it: while Tarantino’s tenth film remains a mystery, we know he’s not in a rush. In the meantime, The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth promises to deliver more of the filmmaker’s signature style even if he’s not in the director’s chair this time. And who knows? That stage play just might be the unexpected final chapter in a legendary career.

What Many People Missed in Fight Club

Posted on 23 mei 2022 by Jeppe Kleijngeld

Fight Club was an unexpected spectacle from 1999. The direction by David Fincher is top notch and Edward Norton and Brad Pitt form an extremely memorable screen duo. Norton as the typical working stiff addicted to buying stuff he doesn’t need and Pitt as his uber cool and revolutionary counterpart.

SPOILERS: If you haven’t seen Fight Club, and you definitely should see it, stop reading NOW and enjoy the fucking MOVIE.

Towards the end of Fight Club, we discover that Norton’s character and Pitt (Tyler Durden) are actually the same person. Norton – called the narrator – ‘invented’ Durden in his mind to help him change and become the man he really desired to be. In the movie, at times he is seeing Tyler as a separate person and actually fights him (and thus himself) which leads to the start of the revolutionary Fight Club movement. At other times he is still his self-doubting self and again at other times he is fully Tyler Durden (which as an audience we don’t see) and he is spreading his movement through America.

The reason that he is sometimes still himself is that the journey to fully become his hero Tyler is quite a mental challenge. He finds it hard to be Tyler because it goes against his nature. Yet, because he is also repulsed by his own ‘slave’ behavior, he needs to become Tyler to set himself free from his consumerist lifestyle.

Now here comes a description the narrator gives of Tyler shortly after he meets him: “Tyler was a night person. When the rest of us were sleeping, he worked. He had one part time job as a projectionist. A movie doesn’t come all on one big reel. It comes on a few. Someone has to switch the projectors at the exact moment that one reel ends and the next one begins. You look for it and you can see those little dots come into the upper right corner of the screen. (Tyler: “In the industry, we call them cigarette burns”.) That’s the cue for a changeover. He flips the projector, movie keeps right one going and nobody in the audience has any idea. (Tyler: “Now why would anyone want this shit job?”) Because it affords him interesting opportunities. (Tyler: “Like splicing a single frame of pornography into family films.”) So when the snooty cat and the courageous dog with the celebrity voices meet for the first time in reel three, that’s when you’ll catch a flash of Tyler’s contribution to the film. Nobody knows that they saw it but they did. (Tyler: “Nice big cock.”) Even a hummingbird couldn’t catch Tyler at work.”

Now what many people missed is that these types of flashes occurred earlier in the movie. When the narrator is suffering from insomnia, Tyler appears in four flashes. Blink and you’ll miss them.

This is the process of Tyler manifesting himself in the narrator’s mind. Then the narrator meets (hallucinates) the complete Tyler for the first time on the airplane and the plot is set in motion. Tyler Durden starts setting Fight Clubs in major American cities and later renames it Project Mayhem. His ultimate goal is to blow up all financial buildings, so that all credit card data is destroyed and society can start again at zero.

At the end, the narrator discovers Tyler’s plans and wants to stop him. He shoots himself through the mouth and Tyler drops dead. The narrator is severely wounded, but he survived. Then his love interest Marla is delivered by his (Tyler’s) soldiers. They have a final conversation while the city block around them is reduced to cylinders. “You met me at a very strange time in my life”, is the final line.

But then! As the two lovers watch the inferno, we get an original Tyler Durden dick flash!

So that means the narrator did not really kill him. The mischievous Tyler is still in there and will definitely come back to once again become the narrator. So in the end it is Tyler that wins.

5 reasons Facebook is dumb and depraved

Posted on 22 maart 2015 by Jeppe Kleijngeld

The reason for writing this blog is not to purposely bash Facebook (okay, a little bit). I don’t resent the success of the social media platform. I even loved that David Fincher movie from 2010 (The Social Network), although I don’t think Zuckerberg and his palls liked it so much. And talking about Zuckerberg, I have nothing against him. I admire him even. However, I just feel and believe that Facebook is not so good for people. Here’s why:

1. People chat about horseshit
If you read the average Facebook page, how many substantial posts can you find? I think your IQ drops 5 points with every visit. If this is a representation of mankind, than I arrogantly feel a bit like Albert Einstein in WWII who wrote; ‘I often wonder: what idiotic race am I part of?’

2. It makes people socially lazy
Okay, so Facebook reminds you of birthdays of friends of family members, great. But rather than calling them up, sending them a card or buying them a present, people congratulate their friends and family members ON bloody Facebook. That is the laziest social gesture ever. Yes, I heard the argument; ‘but if it makes your life easier, why not make use of it?’ The answer is easy: Because before there was Facebook you didn’t congratulate them either. You completely forgot their birthdays! So are they supposed to be happy to receive a message from you? Off course not. If the effort is zero, it doesn’t mean jack shit.

3. It shows that a lot of people are just selfish jerks
A while ago, I was checking out profiles of old colleagues (that’s one thing Facebook is good for, spying), and I found one who recently lost her daughter in the final stages of her pregnancy. She posted a picture of herself on which she looked very sad. She also posted a card with the baby’s name on it and the date of birth and death (it was the same day).

How many people responded to this message? Perhaps 8. And I am not even talking about the most supportive comments either. One person said; ‘if you ever need help, you know where to find me.’ Jerk. How often do you see the most lame ass shit on the web get a hundred likes or more? All the fucking time. But when people post something that really comes from the heart, that shows what life is all about, most people couldn’t give a shit.

4. It makes idiotic suggestions on who to connect with
Just because I checked out some profile doesn’t mean I want to befriend somebody! Please stop with these ridiculous suggestions, FB. You are terrible at it, so you might as well stop before you annoy me away. Also, it makes your mailbox explode. FB, if you have to make awful suggestions on who to befriend, at least only do it once. I don’t want multiple suggestions on one day, and especially not the same lame ass suggestions more than once. And while I am at it, don’t mail me about the idiotic updates my friends posted.

5. The past is the past
Facebook makes you connect with people from your past. Or at least confronts you with their ugly faces on a daily basis. There are reasons you don’t see them anymore, and in 99% of the cases it is absolutely fine if it stays that way. It is bad for your mental health to keep stirring up people and events from the past for who you have no place in your current life and mind.

So why keep Facebook? Yes indeed. Why? It takes a chunk of your valuable time, makes you anxious, and hardly offers anything in return. Not even talking yet about the privacy violations. There must surely be better ways to stay in touch with your friends.