Quentin Tarantino Puts 10th Movie on Hold for a Nearly 30-Year Acting Return
Pulp Fiction’s director was long rumoured to be working on his next movie, but it seems like Tarantino has yet to come back to acting first.
There’s only a handful of movie directors who forever changed the industry and the way it works, but even fewer of them ever went to a film school.
When it comes to making it to Hollywood without any type of diploma, Quentin Tarantino’s name pops up in mind, since the now legendary director started out his movie career in a, well, small video store in California.
He then moved on to writing for other directors and appearing in front of the camera every so often (sometimes even in the leading role), but was fully concentrated on making his own flicks ever since the 1990s.
Now that Tarantino has spent a couple of years teasing fans about his tenth and most likely final movie, things are about to change a bit, pushing the director to a different side of the moviemaking.
Quentin Tarantino to Star in Independent Drama ‘Only What We Carry’
It’s not clear whether Tarantino in fact put off his work on the tenth movie to concentrate on the acting job, but he’s definitely making a huge move in his career, returning to starring in a film almost 30 years after appearing in 1996’s From Dusk Till Dawn as an actor.
As Deadline revealed, the independent drama titled Only What We Carry has already wrapped filming in the French city of Deauville, with Welsh writer-director Jamie Adams helming the project.
Alongside Tarantino star Simon Pegg, Sofia Boutella and Charlotte Gainsbourg. According to the sources, Tarantino will portray John Percy, an old friend of Pegg’s Julian Johns, “a once-formidable instructor whose former student Charlotte Levant (Boutella) returns home to face the ghosts of her past”.
The insiders also revealed that Tarantino was Adams’ first choice for the role, adding that the director reached out to Tarantino “through his agent because he was perfect for the part”.
What Will Quentin Tarantino’s Tenth Movie Be About?
While Tarantino’s highly speculated The Movie Critic is definitely not happening now, the director seems to be more interested in the theatre now — though this might have a direct impact on his final movie.
As Tarantino revealed earlier this year, he’s currently preparing a stage play set to premiere in London’s West End sometime in 2026; the plot remains under the wraps, but Tarantino says it might be good enough to be turned into a movie eventually.
“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”, the director said in an interview with Variety.
