Quentin Tarantino is happy to pass directing duties to David Fincher for Netflix’s highly anticipated “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” sequel.
During a recent interview on “The Curch of Tarantino” podcast, the two-time Oscar winner said he passed on directing “The Adventures of Cliff Booth” because the idea of his final film being a sequel “unenthused” him.
“I love this script, but I’m still walking down the same ground I’ve already walked,” Tarantino explained. “It just kind of unenthused me. This last movie, I’ve got to not know what I’m doing again. I’ve got to be in uncharted territory.”
He went on to praise Fincher, adding that his involvement is emblematic of the film’s importance to Netflix.
“I think me and David Fincher are the two best directors,” he said. “So the idea that David Fincher actually wants to adapt my work, to me, shows a level of seriousness towards my work that I think needs to be taken into account.”
Tarantino still serves as writer and producer on the project. He said he’ll “be around” if the production needs him for anything. “I’m moving back and forth between here and Israel, so I won’t be on the set every day and everything. But, yeah, I’ll be around if they need me to do something, you know, I will.”
In the same interview, Tarantino explained why his long-rumored 10th and final film, “The Movie Critic,” was scrapped. Similar to the reason he passed on “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” the film would’ve been too close to his previous work to be worthy of his final directorial effort.
“I wasn’t really excited about dramatizing what I wrote when I was in pre-production, partly because I’m using the skillset that I learned from ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ [of] ‘How are we going to turn Los Angeles into the Hollywood of 1969 without using CGI?’” Tarantino said. “It was something we had to pull off. We had to achieve it. It wasn’t for sure that we could do it. … ‘The Movie Critic,’ there was nothing to figure out. I already kind of knew, more or less, how to turn L.A. into an older time. It was too much like the last one.”
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