Quentin Tarantino has long maintained that he will only make 10 movies, which leaves him with one more after this summer’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (excluding the often over-looked Death Proof). While he maintains that he wants to make a Star Trek movie, and maybe a third Kill Bill film, it’s unclear what this 10th and final Tarantino feature will be about.
But, during a press conference in Moscow, Tarantino gave a little hint about what this “epilogue-y” final film will be about.
“If you think about the idea of all the movies telling one story and each film is like a train boxcar connected to each other, this one would sort of be the big show-stopping climax of it all,” he said. “And I could imagine that the 10th one would be a little more epilogue-y.”
What’s interesting, is this quote seems to hint at how Tarantino has said all his movies are connected. As Tarantino said in 2017 of his movie universe:
There’s the realer than real universe, alright, and all the characters inhabit that one. But then there’s this movie universe. And so From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill, they all take place in this special movie universe. So basically when the characters of Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, when they go to the movies, Kill Bill is what they go to see. From Dusk Till Dawn is what they see.
His latest film also fits into this shared universe. If you stuck around through the mid-credit scene in OUATIH, Tarantino gave us another fun Easter Egg connecting his movies together. Rick Dalton appears in an advertisement for Apple Cigarettes, which firmly places OUATIH in the The Realer Than Real Universe.
If we consider OUATIH as the synthesis of Tarantino’s lifetime obsession with popular culture, then that perfectly explains the title of this movie, the beginning of a story, the beginning of New Hollywood where Tarantino, as a filmmaker, exists.
So, what would an “epilogue-y” conclusion to that universe be? Would it take place in the future? Would it wrap up what OUATIH began? Star Trek, maybe? We can only begin to speculate.
Culture Editor
Matt is the Culture Editor at Esquire where he covers music, movies, books, and TV—with an emphasis on all things Star Wars, Marvel, and Game of Thrones.
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