Two huge actors will reunite onscreen for the first time in 30 years in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film The Movie Critic, as long as one casting rumor turns out to be true. Based on a real film critic from the 1970s, Tarantino’s The Movie Critic will center on the titular character who writes crude and comedic reviews for a porno magazine in Los Angeles. With long-term plans to retire as a director after making ten movies, Tarantino has confirmed that The Movie Critic will be his final film.
Considering it will supposedly serve as Tarantino’s last hurrah, the stakes are high for The Movie Critic. Only one actor, who is also a past collaborator of Tarantino’s, is officially confirmed to be starring in The Movie Critic, but another major movie star has been linked to the project as well. If the reports of the latter actor’s casting come to fruition, The Movie Critic will mark these two stars’ first onscreen collaboration since 1994.
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Quentin Tarantino’s The Movie Critic Can Reunite Brad Pitt & Tom Cruise
Pitt & Cruise’s only movie together is Interview With The Vampire.
Brad Pitt will be starring in Tarantino’s final movie, marking the actor-director duo’s third collaboration. In addition to Pitt’s confirmed casting, Tom Cruise is also reportedly linked to The Movie Critic (via CBR). Cruise was actually considered for the role of Cliff Booth in Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood before Tarantino ultimately decided to go with Pitt instead. Not only would Tarantino redeem this missed opportunity to collaborate with Cruise by officially casting him in The Movie Critic, he would also be reuniting Cruise and Pitt onscreen for the first time in 30 years.
In 1994, Pitt and Cruise co-starred in the gothic horror film Interview with the Vampire. At the time, Pitt was still an up-and-coming actor while Cruise was an established movie star, but their onscreen chemistry was undeniable. Interview with the Vampire marked the pair’s first and only collaboration, as they’ve yet to star in another movie together since. If Cruise does end up starring in The Movie Critic, which is looking extremely likely, Tarantino would be fulfilling a wish three decades in the making.
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Pitt and Cruise starring in The Movie Critic together would be exciting because they’d finally be reuniting onscreen, but it would also be particularly fitting because of the subject matter and significance of the film itself. Similar to how Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was an homage to 1960s cinema, The Movie Critic will also celebrate filmmaking and criticism. The Movie Critic will also mark the end of the career of one of the most important directors of modern cinema, which is why it makes perfect sense for stars like Pitt and Cruise to be a part of it.
In the years since Tarantino burst onto the scene in the early ’90s with Reservoir Dogs, Pitt and Cruise have established themselves as some of the most prominent and enduring actors in Hollywood. Over the last 35 years, they’ve starred in movies like Fight Club and Jerry Maguire and franchises like Ocean’s, Top Gun, and Mission: Impossible that helped shape modern cinema. As two of the biggest movie stars who have managed to maintain longevity in their careers and are still relevant and working today, Pitt and Cruise are both flawless casting choices for a film like The Movie Critic.
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Brad Pitt & Tom Cruise Almost Reunited In A Different Movie
The two actors could have starred in Ford v Ferrari.
Pitt and Cruise’s long-awaited onscreen reunion nearly materialized in a different film a few years ago. Pitt and Cruise almost starred in Ford v Ferrari together in 2019, back when it was still titled Go Like Hell. Joseph Kosinski, who directed Cruise in 2013’s Oblivion and would later reunite with him for 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, was originally attached to direct the sports biopic, but the project fell through due to its inflated budget.
“I wouldn’t say we got close to production,” Kosinski noted, “but I got to the point where I had Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt at a table read reading the script together, which was pretty amazing.” The movie eventually came to fruition as Ford v Ferrari with James Mangold directing and Matt Damon and Christian Bale cast as the leads, dashing all hopes of Pitt and Cruise finally reuniting onscreen. Now, it looks like Pitt and Cruise may actually get their chance to finally star in another movie together if everything works out with The Movie Critic.
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