Once Upon A Time In London: Quentin Tarantino to bring his debut play to the West End

Published on 20/08/2025 - 14:11 GMT+2

Director Quentin Tarantino has said he plans to unfastened his first play successful London’s West End and revealed he wants to move to England pinch his family successful 2026 successful bid to amended oversee nan project.

The 62-year-old two-time Oscar winner, champion known for movies for illustration Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds, told The Church of Tarantino podcast that nan play would return up to 2 years of his life.

He said that nan play – arsenic yet untitled - “is each written, it is perfectly nan adjacent point that I’m going to [do] and we will commencement nan shot rolling connected it successful January.”

Tarantino stated that “it’ll astir apt beryllium a twelvemonth earlier it’s successful beforehand of an audience,” meaning that a imaginable world premiere would beryllium successful 2027.

“I’m preparing for it to beryllium a success. If it is simply a flop, past I will beryllium done very quickly,” he added. He besides said that if nan play is simply a hit, nan task could go his last film. (Tarantino has agelong maintained that he wants to spell retired astatine nan apical of his crippled and that he wants to only nonstop 10 movies... Even if we'd reason he already has.)

The filmmaker presently lives successful Israel pinch his wife, vocalist Daniella Pick, and their 2 children. He told nan podcast he’s having a “great time” pinch his children and plans to “hang out” pinch his family for nan remainder of nan twelvemonth earlier “more than likely” relocating them to England for nan play.

The timing of nan move has raised immoderate eyebrows, pinch immoderate commenting online that his relocation could beryllium linked to nan mounting condemnation of Israel’s actions successful Gaza. However, neither Tarantino nor Pick person addressed nan taxable directly.  

Tarantino, who antecedently adapted his 2019 film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood into a play and staged The Hateful Eight through a unrecorded reference of nan book successful 2015 aft it was leaked, has precocious written nan screenplay for nan sequel to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.  

The upcoming Netflix film, titled The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, will attraction connected Brad Pitt’s characteristic from nan original movie and will beryllium directed by David Fincher.  

Tarantino explained connected nan Church of Tarantino podcast why he isn’t directing nan sequel: “I deliberation maine and David Fincher are nan 2 champion directors. So nan thought that David Fincher really wants to accommodate my work, to me, shows a level of seriousness towards my activity that I deliberation needs to beryllium taken into account.” 

Tarantino besides revealed why he decided to “pull nan plug” connected his planned film The Movie Critic.

“No one’s waiting for this thing, per se. I mean, I tin do it whenever I want, it’s already written,” he explained. “Every Tarantino title promises truthful much, except The Movie Critic. Who wants to spot a TV show astir a fucking movie critic? Who wants to spot a movie called The Movie Critic? If I tin really make a movie aliases a TV show astir personification who watches movies interesting, that is an accomplishment.”

Principal photography for The Adventures Of Cliff Booth began past period and nan movie is expected to wrap early January 2026. No merchandise day has yet been confirmed.