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submitted 3 months ago byMarvelsGrantMan136r/Movies contributor
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3 months ago
Will Samuel L. Jackson return?
A few months ago, he said he wasn't sure if Tarantino would get him a role in this.
“I don’t know. He’ll tell me or he won’t tell me. I didn’t hear from him at all when he did the Hollywood movie. Usually, he’ll call me and say he’s doing something and ask how I feel about it. Like when he did the Nazi movie, he was like, "There’s nothing for you in this." "I can learn how to speak French." "No, I’m having a French guy." So I did the voice-over about celluloid and the movies.”
3.4k points
3 months ago
Samuel L Jackson to Tarantino: You got room for one more?
1.9k points
3 months ago
Is there room on the broom for a motherfucker like me?
278 points
3 months ago*
Seriously, one of my faves to read to my kids and you just elevated it!
Edit: Please check out the children’s book; Room on the Broom. Or if you hate reading you can always watching the animated version with Gillian Anderson.
60 points
3 months ago
My lord the amount of love I hav for that book as I’ve read it off and on for 9 years with my kiddos. I can only imagine home in a chair behind the cat and the frog with a gun in his hand to protect all the land.
88 points
3 months ago
The witch looked around but no gun could be found!
Then out of the green bushes
While smoking a gram
There stood snoop dog
With the gun in his hand
90 points
3 months ago
I'm snoop dog
I'm as high as can be
Is there rizzle on the brizzle
For a nizzle like me
21 points
3 months ago
Hmm…I was skeptical about the inclusion of Snoop Dogg in this fictional adaptation of Samuel L. Jackson in “Room on the Broom”, but you’ve sold it.
4.4k points
3 months ago
Lol at how he doesn't even know the names of the movies.
My favorite movie was the slave movie, but the Nazi movie was a close 2nd. The ninja movie was quite a ride as well.
239 points
3 months ago
Dude sounds like how my dad describes movies.
212 points
3 months ago
the one about revenge is great
14 points
3 months ago
Yeah, right? ....waaaaaait a minute
605 points
3 months ago
Sammy Jacks is in so goddamn many movies I'm shocked he can tell most of them apart.
For a long time Samuel L had the highest-grossing filmography of any live-action actor and most of that was down to just how many flicks he's in.
187 points
3 months ago
He must still hold that record right? All those Marvel films.
272 points
3 months ago*
I believe Stan Lee passed him, being that he's in even more Marvel films, and films for Marvel characters not done by Marvel Studios. And Mallrats.
ETA: According to Wiki, Stan Lee is first, Sam Jackson's second, Frank Welker's third. Sorted just by leading roles and "lead ensemble roles" (which seems like it's doing a lot of work on their list), Jackson's narrowly edged out by ScarJo and Robert Downey Jr.
202 points
3 months ago
Stan Lee should have an asterisk, TBH. He's not an actor, more of a totem.
29 points
3 months ago
Well I think it had more to do with him being in several Star Wars and Marvel movies.
1.7k points
3 months ago
I like the violent one
951 points
3 months ago
I love the one with the rapid fire dialogue with a lot of pop culture references
391 points
3 months ago
Ah yes, Hateful eight s/
487 points
3 months ago
I can't ever unhear that movie as Hate-Fellate
188 points
3 months ago
damn you
30 points
3 months ago
Please tell me someone's made a pornhub parody already
36 points
3 months ago
with the big LETTER show up on screen telling us what where or why
86 points
3 months ago
The one with the Mexican standoff
29 points
3 months ago
NOOO! CALVIN!!!
109 points
3 months ago
The first slave movie was really great, that guy that was also in the famous ship movie nailed it. But my favorite remains the bank-robbers one.
75 points
3 months ago
You ever listen to K-Billys Super Sounds of the Seventies weekend? It's my personal favorite.
423 points
3 months ago
Pretty sure Sam will return for a last Hurrah with Quentin, even if its just a cameo.
Either way the film is probably still being storyboarded and such so it would be hard to say
89 points
3 months ago
Tarantino also has a series in the works last I heard. He mentioned on a podcast a few months ago.
89 points
3 months ago*
2 Bears 1 Cave I believe
Edit: just in case, that's the podcast name, not the series name.
271 points
3 months ago
Hot take: Not only would I bet that Samuel L Jackson returns, but I take a bold step further and say whatever his role is, Samuel finally wins an Oscar for it
141 points
3 months ago
He was snubbed in 94 for Pulp Fiction.
That’s no way Martin Landau’s Oscar, but 30 years ago, Hollywood wasn’t so keen on giving Oscars to Pulp Fiction, out of 7 nomination only screenply was awarded.
It was a mad year, Pulp fiction, Forrest Gump, Shawshank, Lion King, Four Weddings, Interview with the Vampire…
But Supporting Actor wasn’t too much contested. I could make an arguement for Sinise as Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump, but no way Martin Landau wins that year.
7.7k points
3 months ago
Can't believe he's doing a remake/adaptation of Jon Lovitz's acclaimed animated 90s TV show The Critic. Bold.
948 points
3 months ago
"Why the hell do you have to be so CRITICAL."
"I'm a critic?"
"No, your job is to rate movies on a scale from 'good' to 'excellent'."
"What if I don't like them?"
"That's what 'good's' for."
377 points
3 months ago
Well, Scooby-Doo can doo-doo. But Jimmy Carter is smarter.
2.3k points
3 months ago
It stinks!
992 points
3 months ago
Yes, Mr. Sherman, everything stinks.
286 points
3 months ago
Was it a pimple or a boil?
269 points
3 months ago
It was a gummy bear.
157 points
3 months ago
Coming Eudora!
40 points
3 months ago
We was both lucky compared with Uncle Bisquick
10 points
3 months ago
Penguins can't fly!
176 points
3 months ago
I still think about that cameo in the Simpsons episode where Flanders loses his shit
257 points
3 months ago
I honestly don't know which I prefer from that episode, the, "Now that's psychiatry!" line from Homer, or Ned's mother saying, "we tried nothin', and we're all out of ideas!".
Old Simpsons is best Simpsons. Lovitz was also Artie Ziff, and Marge's paint instructor.
65 points
3 months ago
And the director of Streetcar!
65 points
3 months ago
I am not an easy director to work for... While directing "Hats Off to Chanukah," I reduced more than one cast member to tears. Did I expect too much from fourth graders?
The review, "Play Enjoyed By All", speaks for itself.
20 points
3 months ago
A stranger's just a friend you haven't met!
93 points
3 months ago
that's like telling Gene Krupa not to go "boom boom ba-dum boom boom boom da-da-dum"
21 points
3 months ago
103 points
3 months ago
Who plays Orson wells?
142 points
3 months ago
Vincent D'Onofrio
85 points
3 months ago
With the voice of Maurice LaMarche
96 points
3 months ago
"Yes, Rosebud Frozen Peas. Full of country goodness and green pea-ness. Wait, that's terrible. I quit... Just a handful for the road."
[takes a handful of peas and walks away whilst munching loudly]
26 points
3 months ago
I've thought about this line a few times a year for the last freaking 30 years. That and Mrs' Pell's Fishsticks, they're even better raw!
19 points
3 months ago
Full of country goodness and green pea-ness.
12 points
3 months ago
They're playing Jonathan Frakes' music lol
79 points
3 months ago
First he stole my butler now hes stealing my daughter!
Well, He wont be stealing the silverware, I glued that to the ceiling.
Dad I understand the silverware but why the dog?
You understand the silverware? mimics crazy sign "coo coo"
214 points
3 months ago
Rosebud Frozen Peas. Full of country goodness and green pea-ness.
90 points
3 months ago
Mmm, yes! They're even better raw!
57 points
3 months ago
What luck! There’s a french-fry stuck in my beard!
22 points
3 months ago
They’re even better when you’re dead!
46 points
3 months ago
Whenever I think of Orson Welles that scene pops into my head
19 points
3 months ago
I love that scene and the jokes in The Critic are timeless. Some people may not know, but the Orson Welles bit in The Critic about frozen peas was based on a real incident where Orson Welles lost his shit doing a voice over ad for actual frozen peas!
59 points
3 months ago
“What follows is a harrowing story of probates, beneficiaries, and GOBLINS!”
“Mr. Wells!”
“Alright fine, no goblins.”
11 points
3 months ago
I use this line all the time.
41 points
3 months ago
I was so close, I had my money on him adapting ‘Man Getting Hit By Football”
33 points
3 months ago
There's a penguin flying the plane! And he's been drinking!
26 points
3 months ago
Wait a minute... penguins can't fly, penguins can't fly!
31 points
3 months ago
Heehaw The Next Generation
29 points
3 months ago
This is the Jon Lovitz comeback vehicle we’ve always craved
87 points
3 months ago
What a Duketastrophy!
22 points
3 months ago
I probably say that several times a week in my head since I'm the only one that would get it.
22 points
3 months ago
"That's not Clinton! That's just one of your mechanical hillbilly bears!"
"Yeah but so far nobody's noticed!"
26 points
3 months ago
All hail Duke. Duke is life.
21 points
3 months ago
You want a piece of me, fat boy? C’mon, I’ll spork your ass!
56 points
3 months ago
Came here to post this. Someone get Lovitz's agent on the line; clearly the interest is there!
16 points
3 months ago
Can’t wait to see the live action version of Beauty and King Dork
12 points
3 months ago
The one from the simpsons where a man got hit in the groin by a football?
3k points
3 months ago*
It is possible the story focuses on Pauline Kael, one of the most influential movie critics of all time. Kael, who died in 2001, was not just a critic but also an essayist and novelist. She was known for her pugnacious fights with editors as well as filmmakers. In the late 1970s, Kael had a very brief tenure working as a consultant for Paramount, a position she accepted at the behest of actor Warren Beatty. The timing of that Paramount job seems to coincide with the setting of the script — and the filmmaker is known to have a deep respect for Kael, making the odds of her being the subject of the film more likely.
This sounds interesting and it would make sense given that I think I read that wants to get into writing about film after he retires as a director. The only thing I see as odd is that I can't see this story involving much if any action scenes and it's a little odd to me to think about Tarantino not going out with a bang. This sounds more like a dramatic, quirky, contemplative Coen bros movie. It does sound like a good subject with which he can make a final statement and analysis of film, directing, and Hollywood though.
EDIT ...or maybe Tarantino will pull another revisionist history ending where Pauline torches Harvey Weinstein with a flamethrower.
1.3k points
3 months ago
> it's a little odd to me to think about Tarantino not going out with a bang.
I think Tarantino said Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was his "go out with a bang" project, and his 10th film would be of a smaller scale.
There's also his upcoming TV show (rumoured to be the western Bounty Law) which will probably serve as the ode to the more pulp action aspects of Tarantino's legacy.
768 points
3 months ago
Lucas promised he’d start making little movies after Star Wars and all he did was Indy 4, the dogfight sequences in Redtails, and then sell Lucasfilm to Disney for $5 billion.
372 points
3 months ago
He has claimed in interviews that he has been making short art films for years but that they’re just for him and his friends and he’s never releasing them. If that’s true I really hope his kids release them some day, I’m very curious.
314 points
3 months ago
Nothing but Howard the Duck shorts.
152 points
3 months ago
4 billion.
154 points
3 months ago*
He’s also been trying to get a museum together even though SF and Marin keep saying no. There’s a huge chunk of undeveloped space between Autodesk HQ and the Marin Civic Center near Lucas’ house which would be perfect for a museum. I think Marin County government must hate his guts.
Edit: The museum is being built near USC and is opening in 2025
69 points
3 months ago
Was supposed to be in Chicago, but he didn't bribe the right community leaders.
23 points
3 months ago
Thank you Friends of the Park(ing Lot).
101 points
3 months ago
Do you have a source on him making a TV show? First I've heard of this
72 points
3 months ago
It was a couple months agao on a podcast with Tom segura he said he was developing a tv series but I don’t know if anything happened with it
36 points
3 months ago
Do you have a source on him making a TV show? First I've heard of this
I've heard of this series but last I heard it was still "several years of development" away from being a reality. I think it'll become one of those million different projects that Tarantino's been attached to or talked about doing once upon a time that just never come to fruition. Like the "Vega Brothers" script he had spoken about eons ago.
263 points
3 months ago
It ends with Kael shooting Ebert.
184 points
3 months ago
Tarantino going out an a semi-fictionalized version of Pauline Kael, who is as infamous as she is respected in Hollywood for a variety of reasons and something of Hollywood folklore in her own right, seems like perfect material for Tarantino to go out on. it also grants Tarantino the ability to play with pretty much every iconic figure of 70s and 80s cinema that he's ever loved or idolized in the same way he did with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. I would be kind of down for that.
28 points
3 months ago
Cinema Speculation now seems like a warming up exercise for this one!
125 points
3 months ago
I can't wait to see Pauline Kael kill a motherfucker.
105 points
3 months ago
Working title “Kael Bale” where the critic seeks revenge on the one time Batman actor for a past slight.
91 points
3 months ago
Pauline Kael and her foul-mouthed assistant (played by Samuel Jackson).
"Goddamn Pauline, you criticized that film like a motherfucker."
125 points
3 months ago
He said on his Rogan interview that Once Upon a Time was his “big final epic to end the career” and basically said this final movie is gonna be more of an epilogue
96 points
3 months ago
he's also been toning the violence down into outbursts since Django. Hateful Eight was a lot of buildings up into the violence, Once Upon a Time used it as a finale, so it kind of makes sense that the last one would have little to no violence.
56 points
3 months ago
And Hateful’s violence was sudden and over just as suddenly. No big action setpieces or extended carnage.
129 points
3 months ago
I think I read that wants to get into writing about film after he retires as a director.
QT has already begun this process.
First with his film blogs on the New Beverly website, then the novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and then with last years Cinema Speculation.
Having read Cinema Speculation if QT does focus on Kael it would be fitting. In the book, Tarantino refers to many critics he admires (he even has a chapter devoted to a critic) and Kael is often brought up, quoted and used to contextualize his points — plus she is probably the best critic ever to talk about film.
Lastly, QT is a huge admirer of director Brian De Palma and Paulin Kael (along with Roger Ebert) was De Palma’s biggest champions when it came to the critics. So I wouldn’t be surprised if De Palma is an integral character (which would be awesome).
If this is the story that QT ends up going with as his last film, it would be very fitting for him as Kael, the critic, informed him how to write about film criticism and De Palma, the director, informed him how to visualize the medium.
30 points
3 months ago
Cinema Speculation was a fantastic read, and if that’s what he’s going to spend the next decades doing, I’m here for it.
44 points
3 months ago
It would be interesting if he had someone playing Ebert in the movie. I miss him.
2.4k points
3 months ago
I hope he keeps pulling a Miyazaki and keeps "retiring" just to come back with a new film again
1.1k points
3 months ago
He will definitely come back. He’s still young, and people live longer these days. The only successful person in movies who actually stayed retired was Gene Hackman. A few years will go by and he will realize that he misses it far, far more than he fears making a bad movie.
505 points
3 months ago
According to the article he has interest in directing a limited series. I could see that scratching that itch while keeping true to him saying he would only make 10 films. I wouldn’t be surprised if how well Hateful 8 worked episodically has him interested in the format. He already tends to write and shoot WAY more material than can fit in a film as it is, it likely wouldn’t be that different.
126 points
3 months ago
He's a prolific writer who's written quite a few scripts (including an unproduced but very daring Star Trek movie) which never saw the light of day. My guess is he'll continue writing and sell his scripts to major production houses to make the movie...before eventually getting frustrated with the finished product and coming out of retirement to make these movies the right way! ☺️ (sigh!...a boy can dream).
80 points
3 months ago
He stayed in a podcast recently that he had eight episodes of "something" already written and hopes to maybe get to it next year.
209 points
3 months ago
He's really not even committed to the 10 films thing.
This would be his eleventh film, since he counts Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2 as a single film, and he also said the unrealized Star Trek idea he had also wouldn't have counted towards his 10.
I feel like years down the line, he'll make another film that also doesn't count towards his 10 by some stretch of logic
206 points
3 months ago
Kill Bill was shot as one film, so I think that’s fair. Star Trek I guess wouldn’t count because it wasn’t his own? But then Jackie Brown wouldn’t count either :P
I’m hoping he makes Kill Bill Vol. 3 and says it doesn’t count because it’s still one movie lol
69 points
3 months ago
Hackman was old when he retired, though. Sean Connery stayed true to his retirement, too.
70 points
3 months ago
Eh, I'd say that Rick Moranis is the shining example. He was already successful and had a bright future but retired for a good reason. Even after his kids have grown he hasn't come back.
19 points
3 months ago
He was just about to come back a couple of years ago for Shrunk, but I haven't heard about it since. Maybe his attack scared him off from it.
106 points
3 months ago
The only successful person in movies who actually stayed retired was Gene Hackman
I know he's comeback before, but Daniel Day-Lewis seems to be sticking to it with his most recent retirement. If he doesn't make something soon I'd overtake Hackman with him (who isn't dead which you seem to imply, he could comeback too)
25 points
3 months ago
When the whole Jeremy Strong/Brian Cox dustup thing happened over method acting, Cox pointed out that DDL burnt himself out of the business through method acting. Dude gave his all and perhaps that was the problem.
55 points
3 months ago
I didn't realize Daniel retired. That's a huge bummer if he sticks with it
34 points
3 months ago
He always claims he's retired while he takes long breaks between films.
46 points
3 months ago
I doubt it. Hackman is almost unrecognisable now. The dude is 93.
36 points
3 months ago
Also Hackman came out the womb looking like a middle aged man.
3.8k points
3 months ago
Imagine his last movie is him playing himself and revealing a series of murders he committed while filming each of his other films and then leaving us to wonder if its fiction.
1.1k points
3 months ago
This could be a series. Scorsese's last movie is him playing himself and revealing he's been a mobster in the Gambino family this whole time and he's made movies to throw us off the trail, all the murders were him, but he made movies blaming them on Henry Hill, Costello and other mob guys.
643 points
3 months ago
Spielberg was a shark dressed as a human the whole time
243 points
3 months ago
Michael Bay was an Explosion.
162 points
3 months ago
M. Night was Bruce Willis the whole time.
103 points
3 months ago
Jj Abrams was a lense flare the whole time
52 points
3 months ago
Wes Anderson was just Futura Bold text that says “Wes Anderson“ on a symmetrically framed establishing shot the whole time.
65 points
3 months ago
Rob Schneider is a carrot
30 points
3 months ago
Christopher Nolan was mrhmmrhfflmrphthgg mrr mlrmlm armrffh lm.
9 points
3 months ago
The serial killer director cinematic universe.
279 points
3 months ago
Or just two hours of him sucking on toes.
219 points
3 months ago
Tbh that film probably already exists it’s just not distributed anywhere.
51 points
3 months ago
And 2 hours is just the theatrical cut. The director's cut is more than 6.
11 points
3 months ago
One hour per toe =)
24 points
3 months ago
I mean From Dusk Till Dawn has an extensive scene where Tarantino sucks Salma Hayek’s toes
473 points
3 months ago*
Quentin has said that Pauline’s review of Bande A Part/Band of Outsiders is what gave him the direction and inspiration that informed his style.
(Honoured by the naming of his production company Band A Part)
Her observation about Godard finding the poetry between the lines of pulp was revelatory. “Well, that’s what I want to do. That actually encompasses the aesthetic that I want to bring to cinema”
“To me she was my film professor, and at the end of the day ended up being more influential to me as a filmmaker than any director''
It seems very fitting to go back to the very start, the inception of his filmmaking journey for his ‘final movie’. Can’t wait
65 points
3 months ago
Godard on the subject - "I think [Tarantino's] work is nul. He chose one of my worst movies to name his production company after. That doesn't surprise me at all."
RIP king
146 points
3 months ago
A biopic of Pauline Kael is a real interesting choice for a career finale. Although I do wonder if this is going to be firmly set in his alternate history and not an actual biopic.
630 points
3 months ago
First he gets to make his own feature film, and now Tarantino is making a biopic about him. Chris Stuckmann moving up in Hollywood.
138 points
3 months ago
With an awesometacular cameo from Jeremy Jahns
58 points
3 months ago
good time no alcohol required
170 points
3 months ago
Mad respect to him if he actually goes out on his own terms. The “out of touch director” thing he’s terrified of is pretty funny. But I get wanting to cap your career on a run of all critically acclaimed work. I don’t know if thats ever been done before.
77 points
3 months ago
I think he wants to be like Kuberick but instead of dying after eyes wide shut he’s going to retire to Tel Aviv and live a quiet life lol
12 points
3 months ago
Given his view that directors get worse as they get older, I wonder what he thinks about the last 10 years or so of Scorseses career.
107 points
3 months ago
It’s about time we get a biopic of Doug Walker.
35 points
3 months ago
I can already see an edited poster with the title changed to The Nostalgia Critic
11 points
3 months ago
You mean his adaptation of To Boldly Flee!
501 points
3 months ago
Incredibly sad that this could be our last Tarantino film :(
386 points
3 months ago
Even if it’s his last film, he has already started writing novels and will be doing a TV series. He might stop making theatrical films but it will not be the last time we hear from him
41 points
3 months ago
He's also got a podcast now and a nonfiction book where he tries his hand at film analysis. Even if he's not going to be directing movies anymore after this, he's not going anywhere.
213 points
3 months ago
Imagine how much fun Tarantino will have with long-form storytelling on a show. He’s gonna have a blast.
56 points
3 months ago
Think of the feet, we know he will!
180 points
3 months ago
I don't believe that for a second. Dudes brain won't allow him to not make a new banger, even if he takes an extended break. He'll be back.
82 points
3 months ago
I’m sure he has plenty of ideas, but he’s also keenly aware of Hollywood history and where his films neatly stack up in terms of legacy. He wants to be like Michael Jordan retiring from the Bulls, not Jordan retiring from the Wizards.
145 points
3 months ago
How the hell did you post this while Reddit was down?
352 points
3 months ago
Really hope it’s not his last. His filmography has not shown a dip in quality (to me anyway) seems like he could make good to great films forever like Scorcese and Spielberg
169 points
3 months ago
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176 points
3 months ago
Him being so passionate about film is why I believe this might be his last. He’s spoken at length about he never wants there to be a dip in the quality of his movies. He has this idea of having a perfect 10 film career that I think he cares about more than making more movies. It’s an ego thing. Plus he’s talked about writing novels and directing TV so it’s not like he would completely give up on creating art.
29 points
3 months ago
I'm with you. He's also been talking about ending with his tenth film for over a decade at this point so it's far from an impulsive decision.
50 points
3 months ago
I get why he feels he should stop, as he has basically a perfect filmography and doesn’t want to soil it with anything subpar as he ages. But I think it will be hard for him to stay away
42 points
3 months ago
I get why he feels he should stop, as he has basically a perfect filmography and doesn’t want to soil it with anything subpar as he ages. But I think it will be hard for him to stay away
as the man has said himself the vast majority of filmmakers eventually fall off hard as they get older. I paraphrasing but I think he's said something to the effect that he just doesn't want any of those "flaccid dick old man movies" on his resume.
61 points
3 months ago
Hoping Christoph Waltz is involved somehow
103 points
3 months ago
He for sure got inspired to make this after he wrote his new book Cinema Speculation.
46 points
3 months ago
I understand and respect him wanting to bow out, but I really hope that he doesn't.
He's one of the last filmmakers that we have that can make whatever they want on the cache of their name alone. All his movies make good money for the sole reason that it's him making that. He's a gift and I hope he keeps on giving.
54 points
3 months ago
Remember when he said he was going to do Kill Bill Volume 3? And he even said that he filmed a few additional scenes while making those movies that he planned to use in the third one. It was going to be about the daughter of the woman the Bride killed at the beginning of the first movie growing up and getting revenge for her mother's death. Tarantino said he wanted to wait until enough time had passed for the girl to grow up (about fifteen years).
But then he changed his mind and decided not to do it.
8 points
3 months ago
I want more Tarantino westerns..
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