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Tarantino Slams Hollywood, Praises “The Rip,” Announces New Play

6/4/2026

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Tarantino Slams Hollywood

U.S. director Quentin Tarantino called Hollywood a “flavorless sausage factory” and said weak storytelling, miscasting and audience pandering torpedo movies.
He praised The Rip’s screenplay by Joe Carnahan and Michael McGrale.
He praised the direction of The Rip.
He praised Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s performances and Juan Miguel Azpiroz’s cinematography in The Rip.
He announced that he is developing The Popinjay Cavalier for a West End premiere in 2027.

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Cliff Booth IMAX

Netflix will launch The Adventures of Cliff Booth with an exclusive IMAX theatrical window on November 25, 2026 before streaming it on December 23, 2026.
The film, set in 1977, follows Brad Pitt’s character Cliff Booth as a darker-toned Hollywood fixer.
Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay while handing directing duties to David Fincher, marking a tonal shift.
At a reported $200 million scale, the project becomes Tarantino’s most expensive screenplay to date.
Tarantino will remain involved as writer and producer, even as he steps back from directing.
The movie continues the narrative of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, expanding Booth’s story beyond nostalgia.

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Tarantino Shelves Film

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino revealed in June 2026 that he scrapped his planned tenth feature, The Movie Critic, in 2024.
He said the pandemic has made new movies nearly impossible to enjoy, calling them ‘flavourless sausage’ productions.
He now prefers reading a book to watching another film.
He recalled publishing a novel version of his 2019 film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood in 2021, his first major literary foray.

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Tarantino Decries AI

He singled out the 2026 releases “Wuthering Heights,” “Michael,” and “The Mandalorian and Grogu” as emblematic of the low-quality output he despises.
He observed that dialogue in several recent films “sounded AI-generated,” expressing alarm over artificial-intelligence’s role in screenwriting.
He admitted that no recent movie has captured his imagination or returned him to the “magical land of enjoyment” he once found in cinema.

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Tarantino Slams Hollywood

U.S. director Quentin Tarantino called Hollywood a “flavorless sausage factory” and said weak storytelling, miscasting and audience pandering torpedo movies.
He praised The Rip’s screenplay by Joe Carnahan and Michael McGrale.
He praised the direction of The Rip.
He praised Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s performances and Juan Miguel Azpiroz’s cinematography in The Rip.
He announced that he is developing The Popinjay Cavalier for a West End premiere in 2027.

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