The Movie Critic is the name of the script that Tarantino wrote and is prepping to direct this fall, according to sources.

Logline details are being kept in a suitcase, but sources describe the story as being set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center.

The project does not have a studio home; it could go out to studios or buyers as early as this week. One frontrunner could be Sony, where Tarantino has relationship with chair Tom Rothman.

Sony distributed Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the filmmaker’s 2019 opus to 1960s moviemaking and also gave him the copyright reverts to him over time.

Hollywood also won two Oscars after nabbing 10 nominations and grossed over $377 million worldwide.

Tarantino has attracted the most-coveted actors, working with Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt two times each. He directed Christoph Waltz to two Oscar wins. Samuel L. Jackson is a frequent collaborator. If this truly is his final film, he will have no shortage of thespians dropping everything to line up for roles.

The filmmaker has long maintained he had a finite number of movies in him, saying he wanted to direct 10 films or retire by the time he was 60. The writer-director has made 9 (if you count the two Kill Bill movies as one) and turns 60 later this month.

One of Hollywood’s auteurs, he is concerned with film history and throwaway genres that tended to operate on the fringes of the industry, such Spaghetti Westerns, blaxploitation, and chopsocky. But his modern and elevated take on those genres has earned him two Oscar wins for best writing (for Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained), three best directing nominations, and one best picture nomination.

Even though he plans on retiring from filmmaking, he has expressed interest in other creative outlets, noting that he could direct limited series or plays.

In 2021, he published his first novel, a novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.