Quentin Tarantino in ‘no hurry’ to direct final movie, plans to write a play

Quentin Tarantino’s 10th and final film won’t be coming anytime soon, as he shared during an interview at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The acclaimed director explained his decision to take his time and not rush into production, citing his role as a father to his young children as a priority.

Tarantino revealed, “I’m in no hurry to actually jump into production. I’ve been doing that for 30 years. Next month my son turns 5, and I have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. When I’m in America, I’m writing. When I’m in Israel? I’m an abba, which means father.”

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Although there were rumors of a film titled The Movie Critic with Brad Pitt as his final project, Tarantino has shifted his focus to writing a play. He mentioned that if the play is successful, it may become his last movie.

Tarantino said, “If you’re wondering what I’m doing right now, I’m writing a play, and it’s going to be probably the next thing I end up doing. If it’s a fiasco, I probably won’t turn it into a movie. But if it’s a smash hit? It might be my last movie.”

Reflecting on the changes in the film industry since his last movie, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Tarantino expressed his disdain for the shift towards streaming and shorter theatrical release windows. He lamented the state of the industry, declaring that 2019 was the last year of true cinema.

“Well, what the f*** is a movie now? What — something that plays in theaters for a token release for four f****** weeks? All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television. I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns,” Tarantino remarked. “I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last f****** year of movies. That was a s*** deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it’s gotten drastically worse? And that it’s just it’s a show pony exercise. Now the theatrical release, you know, and then like yeah, in two weeks, you can watch it on this [streamer] and that one. Okay. Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.”