Quentin Tarantino is considering retiring without making his 10th film

He has always said it and now he may be ahead of his words. Quentin Tarantino explains that he is considering abruptly retiring even despite his previous insistence that his tenth film would be his last work as a director. The filmmaker remains convinced that it is better to say goodbye than to conclude and close his career with bad films and that is why he would be happy to say goodbye to the set with the ones he has already made.

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In a talk with the Pure Cinema Podcast, Quentin Tarantino revealed that he is thinking of retiring as a director before his tenth film, a mark that he had always assured would be his professional goodbye. This is because he continues to believe that it is impossible for directors to end their careers with good films, but that they always end up being “very bad films.” These were his words:

Maybe I shouldn’t make another movie because I might be too happy throwing away the microphone. That’s the frustrating part, many truly magnificent directors, their last three films, would have been a magnificent way to end. Most directors have horrible last films. Usually his worst films are his last. That is the case of the directors who made the golden era of Hollywood who made their last films in the 60s and 70s and it ended up being the case of those who made their last films in the 80s and 90s.

As you can see, if you’re a fan of the director, you might be better off not expecting to see anything new from Tarantino, or at least not holding out much hope. Even if he respected his previous statement, retiring with his tenth work would be very close to it. If we count his filmography as a director, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood was the ninth, since he counts Kill Bill: The Revenge, Volume 1 and its sequel as a single installment that was divided for marketing reasons.

Tarantino has spent these two years working on novels, one of which is a prose version of his most recent film. Likewise, he has explained in the past that retiring as a filmmaker does not mean that he will not continue working in some other medium. It is also known that he developed ideas for a film in the franchise. Star Trekalthough this did not convince the studio and the producers that they have the rights to those characters.

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Outside of these projects, it is not known that he has any story in mind for a possible tenth film. Added to that, this new statement suggests that he may not even be looking for one. Since the reception to once upon a time in hollywooda story about an actor in decline and his stunt double, was extremely positive, as he says, perhaps the best option is to say thank you and say goodbye on time. Even to the disappointment of his many followers.

Are you right that no director manages to end his career on a high note? That is what each person would have to decide. Perhaps how determined he is not to leave his career as a director in failure works in favor of his fans and, if it becomes his tenth film and this one is not very good, pride will force him to finish with film number eleven. All we have to do is wait and see what happens.

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