Chris Evans weighed in on some viral comments famed director Quentin Tarantino made about the Marvel Cinematic Universe last year.
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Quentin Tarantino’s next film, joining his Pulp Fiction co-star Samuel L. Jackson on the rumoured cast list.According to Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider (via World Of Reel), Travolta is set to have a role in The Movie Critic.
It’s said the whole film has already been cast but due to the Hollywood strikes, no official announcement has been made.Jackson was previously rumoured to have been cast in the film. In an interview with Vulture from July, the actor replied “no comment” when asked about the reports.Earlier this year, reports claimed Tarantino also wanted to give Bruce Willis a role in the project to mark his last ever film appearance, following the actor’s frontotemporal dementia diagnosis.Travolta, Jackson and Willis all starred in 1994’s Pulp Fiction, directed by Tarantino.
Jackson has collaborated with Tarantino on several projects since, including Jackie Brown, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight.Earlier this month, Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya, Blackbird) was rumoured to have been cast in the lead role as fictional film critic Jim Sheldon.Speaking to Deadline earlier this year about The Movie Critic, Tarantino said the project – set in Southern California in 1977 – would be based on a real-life critic for a porno magazine.“He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic,” the director said. “I think he was a very good critic.
He was cynical as hell. His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle might be if he were a film critic.”An early cast list for Pulp Fiction which circulated earlier this year revealed both Travolta and Jackson were second choices for their roles, behind Michael Madsen and Laurence Fishburne.
.Chris Evans weighed in on some viral comments famed director Quentin Tarantino made about the Marvel Cinematic Universe last year.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Chris Evans said in a new GQ profile that he agrees to an extent with Quentin Tarantino’s recent claim that Marvel killed the movie star. The filmmaker said last year that people go to see a Marvel movie because “Captain America is the star or Thor is the star,” and not because they want to see Chris Evans or Chris Hemsworth. Evans somewhat agrees.
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Quentin Tarantino has offered Paul Walter Hauser the lead role in his next film The Movie Critic, according to reports.As reported by Hollywood insider Daniel Richtman (via World Of Reel), Hauser is said to have been offered the lead role prior to the Hollywood actors’ strike – which has halted development on the project.It’s believed Hauser is lined up to play fictional film critic Jim Sheldon, who is speculated to be based on William Margold – a real life critic who Tarantino described in his book Cinema Speculation as the “first-string film critic for the sex rag the Hollywood Press”.Tarantino has reportedly been writing under the pseudonym of Jim Sheldon on the New Beverly Cinema website, where the pen name is described as writing for the Hollywood Press.Hauser is best known for supporting roles in I, Tonya, BlacKkKlansman, Late Night, Da 5 Bloods and Cruella. He also played the title character in Clint Eastwood’s 2019 film Richard Jewell.Most recently, he won a Golden Globe for his performance as suspected serial killer Larry Hall in the 2022 Apple TV+ miniseries Black Bird, opposite Taron Egerton.Speaking to Deadline earlier this year about The Movie Critic, Tarantino said the project – set in Southern California in 1977 – would be based on a real-life critic for a porno magazine.“He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic,” the director said.
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