It has been an oft-discussed topic ever since Quentin Tarantino announced his plan to retire after his tenth movie. Will he really stop? And is that the right idea? Doing the math, if Sir Ridley Scott stopped making movies at 10, he wouldn’t have made Gladiator. Unthinkable. What movies will Tarantino leave on the table if he walks away? At the same time, Martin Scorsese recently opened up about the weight of time that he’s starting to feel, knowing that he wants to keep telling stories, but he knows he’s getting old. Which side does Christopher Nolan fall on? The Oppenheimer director, similar to Tarantino, has a remarkable body of work. Does he want to keep going and possibly jeopardize ending his career on a dud?
The chances of that happening are slim. Even when he has dipped into the superhero genre, Nolan made some of the best Batman movies ever created. But he prefers working on original material like Tenet or Interstellar. With Oppenheimer on the way, Mr. Nolan joined our ReelBlend podcast and we started discussing Tarantino’s plan to retire. “Do you believe him?” Nolan fired back. The ReelBlend hosts disagree. We’re split on it. But as Nolan opened up, and brought Scorsese into the mix, he told us:
