Instead, it will be based on a man who wrote for a porno magazine.
Todays event is billed as as a Rendezvous-vous with Quentin Tarantino.
I ask if the critic in question was known.
Quentin Tarantino on the Carlton Hotel terrace in Cannes.Baz Bamigboye/Deadline
Tarantino throws his head back: Well, he was known if you read the Popstar Pages!!
He explained: He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic.
I think he was a very good critic.
Quentin Tarantino on the Carlton Hotel terrace in Cannes today.Photo: baz Bamigboye/Deadline
He was as cynical as hell.
Sipping his juice, he added, Think about Traviss diary entries.
But the porno rag critic was very, very funny.
He was very rude, you know.
He used racial slurs.
But his shit was really funny.
He was as rude as hell.
Tarantino did research into the reviewers life.
He wrote like he was 55 but he was only in his early to mid-30s.
He died in his late thirties.
No one has been cast.
He acknowledged that there arent any actors in his repertory company in that age range.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, he conceded, are too old for the part.
I havent decided yet but its going to be somebody in the 35 year-old ball park.
Itll definitely be a new leading man for me.
I pushed him on who it could be but he refused to tell.
AfterCanneshell return to his wife and two children in Tel Aviv.
No, he said empathetically.
Obviously, nothing against the Brits, but were living in a really weird time now.
Nobody is acting in their own voice.
Sure, but what does that say about the American screen actor?
I would say that for the most part the Americans gave up their own ground.
I think its just a case that a bunch of Brits became more famous than the others.
The Americans ceded their own ground.
He added: There are just a lot of good British actors and theyre pretty good at it.
I argue that Barbara Broccoli would never consider casting a non British actor to play James Bond.
Tarantino hit back, But then she considered James Brolin at one point when they cast Roger Moore.
There was a consideration for James Brolin.
He sat back then clarified, By the way, Im not being xenophobic.
They dont want to see that shit.
Well be screening a 35 mm print ofRolling Thunder.
And so the idea being that Im responsible for bringingRolling Thunderto Cannes is a very, very cool thing.
Tarantino was 14 or 15 at the time.
Back then, he noted movies left theaters and that was it.
It was just the first time that I started looking at something other than just the narrative on screen.
He reckons hes seen it a bunch of times, probably 15 times over the years.
Tarantino first came to Cannes over three decades ago.Reservoir Dogsplayed at Sundance in 1992.
And it had a special screening at that years Cannes Film Festival.
It played at the Palais, it was like official selection outside of competition.
And then at some point with Lars von Trier they stopped putting the sticker on.
I totally knew what Cannes was.
