Jeff Snieder has been on a roll when it comes to breaking stories, only for the trades to break them a day later.
In the latest episode of HOT MIC, he had an update on Quentin Tarantino’s “The Movie Critic,” still set for production this fall.
Sneider is hearing that Tarantino’s upcoming film will be “critical of the current state of Hollywood.” He add that QT wants Cate Blanchett for the lead role.
These are just rumors, but we’ll take whatever we can get about this one. And yes, I have read Giant Freaking Robot’s “exclusive,” from earlier this week, Sneider tells me that the Margot Robbie casting rumors don’t seem to be gelling with what he’s heard.
We don’t know much about this mysterious new Tarantino project. There had been rumblings that it would be about late film critic Pauline Kael, but two of the filmmaker’s friends shut down those rumors last week.
What’s quite clear is that a fall production has been set-up and we’re pretty confident the title is indeed “The Movie Critic,” but that’s about it.
A person had told me over the weekend that Tarantino was inspired to write this movie after the release of his recent book “Cinema Speculation” and that he’s “fictionalized a few key passages” from it into this script.