Quentin Tarantino Will Retire After Two More Films

Quentin Tarantino has said for a while that his directorial career will likely be over after his tenth film. Today at creativity conference Adobe Max in San Diego, he confirmed to a crowd that he’s still on track to retire once he’s made two more movies. “Drop the mic. Boom. Tell everybody, ‘Match that shit,'” he said to the crowd.

He’s hinted that his next scripted film may be a “Bonnie and Clyde-esque” type story set in 1930s Australia. That’s on the back burner for now, however, because he’s working on a different historical non-fiction project.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino doesn’t know yet what the finished product will look like. “It could be a book, a documentary, a five-part podcast,” he said. He does, however, know what it will be about. For four years he has studied the year 1970, a year which, to him, is perhaps the most important in all of cinema history.

He says that once he’s done, he hopes that he is “considered one of the greatest filmmakers that ever lived. And going further, a great artist, not just filmmaker.”

Tarantino has said in the past that once he’s done directing movies, it won’t be the last we hear of him. He’s a writer and a creator, and he’ll still be doing that, just in different formats, possibly including plays and novels.

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[H/T Hollywood Reporter]

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