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It is said that Quentin Tarantino would be thinking about the possibility of giving Bruce Willis his last appearance in a film… And it would be precisely in ‘The Movie Critic’, the film with which Tarantino will retire as a director.
the man behind pulp fiction is ready to give one last film appearance to precisely one of the stars of the aforementioned film… or so they say. Quentin Tarantino would look for Bruce Willis to have a special appearance in The Movie Critic.
Let us remember that this new feature film, the tenth in Tarantino’s career, it is with which the latter will retire as director. And it seems that he wants to share this special moment with another of the figures with whom he has shared the film sets.
Is it true that Quentin Tarantino would give his last movie role to Bruce Willis?
In March 2022, it was announced that the star of Die Hard and The Sixth Sense he retired from acting. The reason? His diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and aphasia; a neurodegenerative medical condition that affects language ability.
Since then, his family has given some details about how the disease has been treated, while on social networks we have been able to see the actor accompanied by his loved ones. But it seems that there are more people who want to give the interpreter of John McClane a farewell worthy of Hollywood.
As we told you, Quentin Tarantino could give Bruce Willis a cameo in his next movie, The Movie Criticwhich would begin filming in the fall of this year (although with the issue of strikes by writers and actors, we cannot rule out a possible reschedule in the production calendar).
The news comes from British newspaper Daily Express, who cite a source close to the filmmaker’s production team. According to this source, Quentin Tarantino’s idea is to give Bruce Willis a brief role in The Movie Critic, as long as the actor’s family agrees.
And in case Bruce could not act, the director would look for another type of non-contact cameo. “Quentin hasn’t reached out to Bruce’s family yet and will give up entirely if they say he’s too sick.…If that’s the case, your goal is include a short clip from one of Bruce’s many previous movies“said the source.
The Movie Critic, Quentin Tarantino’s latest film
The Movie Critic It will be a special release for Quentin Tarantino as It will be the last film that the famous filmmaker directs. Initially, it was speculated that the film would be based on the controversial film critic Pauline Kael, for whom Tarantino is said to have a deep respect. But soon the director himself denied that detail.
Quentin told Deadline that the film will be inspired by in a critic who wrote for the film column of a pornographic magazine in the late 1970s. Tarantino mentions that he liked his movie reviews because this person – whose name he did not reveal – was a cynical writer whom he described as “a combination of Howard Stern and Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver”.
For now, it is said that the film will begin shooting in the fall of 2023, but as we said, we will have to see if the writers’ and actors’ strikes allow it. And what do you say? Would you like Quentin Tarantino to pay homage to Bruce Willis with a brief cameo in The Movie Critic? It would be a great detail without a doubt, many years after their collaboration in Pulp Fiction.
