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Director Quentin Tarantino. File photo: AP

Quentin Tarantino says script finished for his ‘last movie’

  • Director said The Movie Critic, set in 1977, will probably start shooting later this year
  • Oscar winner Tarantino has repeatedly said that he wants to retire after 10 films
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Cult film director Quentin Tarantino said he has finished the script for what will be his “last” movie.

The US director of hit films including Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds and Pulp Fiction said he expected shooting to start on his 10th film later in the year.

“I have finished the script of what will end up being my last movie,” the 60-year-old said on Wednesday while being questioned by Thierry Fremaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival, at the launch of his new book in Paris.

“I imagine we’ll probably shoot it I guess in the fall,” Tarantino said.

Oscar winner Tarantino has repeatedly said that he wants to retire after 10 films – counting the two lengthy episodes of Kill Bill as one.

The film, which will be called The Movie Critic, will be set in 1977, he added.

He denied rumours that it was a biopic of Pauline Kael – the New Yorker film critic who died in 2001 – and said it was not devoted to any specific film critic.

Tarantino’s directorial debut came with Reservoir Dogs in 1992, a low-budget, brutal crime caper that became a cult smash.

But it was Pulp Fiction, the 1994 film starring Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and John Travolta, that took Tarantino from touted indie director to major filmmaking star.

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