After completing his 10th, Quentin Tarantino may trade work on the big screen for that on the small.

"I could do a TV show," Tarantino told Deadline after confirming that his next movie will be his last. "I didn't say I'm going to go into the night darkly, all right? I could do a TV show. I could do a short film. I could do a play. All kinds of things I could do, but I'll probably just be more of a writer."

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The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind such classics as Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction has already been experimenting with projects away from the silver screen. In 2021, he published a novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, expanding the story of his critically acclaimed 2019 feature of the same name. The writer/director followed this up with 2022's Cinema Speculation, a collection of essays on film criticism, theory and history, filtered through the director's own movie-going experiences as a youth in the 1970s.

Quentin Tarantino's Television Resume

Though best known for his work in the film industry, Tarantino also has experience working in television. He directed two episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2005 and was in talks to shepherd entries in FX's Justified revival series in February 2022. Shortly after the release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2019, Tarantino also discussed the idea of doing a television series based on Bounty Law, the fictional TV show starring Leonardo DiCaprio's character Rick Dalton. According to Tarantino, the black-and-white series would be based on five half-hour scripts he wrote in preparation for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with plans to write three more episodes and to direct all of them himself.

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For years, Tarantino fans have been waiting for the director to reveal what his 10th and final film will be about. The director has teased a number of potential projects, including a third Kill Bill film, a Django Unchained and Zorro crossover and a Star Trek feature. In March, the subject of his swan song was finally revealed. Tentatively titled The Movie Critic, Tarantino's last foray on the big screen is said to follow a woman in late 1970s Los Angeles, with some speculating that the movie is based on the career of storied film critic Pauline Kael.

No release date is available for The Movie Critic, though the project is set to begin shooting this fall.

Source: Deadline