Quentin Tarantino is abandoning his plans to develop The Movie Critic. While previously intending for The Movie Critic to serve as his very last feature film, the famed director has apparently had a change of heart.

"The Movie Critic" would have been Tarantino’s tenth feature film, but sources say he won’t be looking to rewrite the script or revive the project, instead making plans to move on to something new.

Tarantino was going to have Brad Pitt as the principal star, which would have marked their third teaming after Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

At one point, Tarantino had said the 1977-set film was abouta small-time movie critic who wrote smart reviews for a porn magazine. It was also rumored that Pitt would play some form of his "Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood" character Cliff Booth, who in Tarantino's novelization of the feature was a big movie buff.

He has long maintained that he wants to go out on the top of his game.

In 2012, he told Playboy, "I want to stop at a certain point. Directors don’t get better as they get older. Usually the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end. I am all about my filmography, and one bad film f—s up three good ones. I don’t want that bad, out-of-touch comedy in my filmography, the movie that makes people think, ‘Oh man, he still thinks it’s 20 years ago.’ When directors get out-of-date, it’s not pretty."

Source: Press Release