Director Quentin Tarantino intended to incorporate actors and characters from his catalog into a metaverse for a new movie.
The Hollywood Reporter says this Tarantino-verse would have occurred in a fictitious movie theater. Young Tarantino would have interacted with the filmmaker’s characters and the fictitious actors who portrayed them in his capacity as the metaverse’s steward.
The metaverse could have operated as a sub-fiction within a sub-fiction, with the entire concept depicted in The Movie Critic as a film set within a movie theater. Tarantino has regrettably published an official statement denying the production of The Movie Critic.
This is not the first time that the legendary tenth film by Quentin Tarantino has failed to materialize. He has long believed that after directing ten films, he would resign.
Tarantino stated that one of the initial projects he intended to complete was situated in the Kill Bill universe and would have centered around the daughter of a character murdered by the protagonist in the first two films, returning to exact vengeance.
Reportedly, Tarantino was also intimately involved with a Star Trek film that would be an adult-oriented, grim franchise adaptation. Reportedly, the director decided against concluding his career with a major franchise film and abandoned that undertaking.
The destiny of the metaverse that The Movie Critic had envisioned remains uncertain. While the identity of Quentin Tarantino’s tenth film remains unconfirmed, the Tarantino-verse may extend beyond cinema.
Tarantino has previously experimented with nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse, according to a report from 2022. NFTs containing “secrets” from his films, such as uncut screenplay sequences from Pulp Fiction, were among the items he sold.
The following day, Miramax filed a lawsuit against him, asserting that it was the rightful proprietor of the IP in question. In the lawsuit, Miramax disclosed that it had been developing its NFTs related to Quentin Tarantino. The parties settled in the end.
Given his extensive and varied career, which has included a cameo appearance on the 1980s television series Golden Girls as an Elvis impersonator and the rewriting of the Charles Manson murders in his 2019 alternate history tale Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a Tarantino-verse could offer fans a comprehensive and genre-spanning experience.
