Thisreallysounds like an April Fools Day joke. But every trade in Hollywood is reporting that its legit.As first reported in The Playlist, the script that Quentin Tarantino almost turned into his tenth (and, if he sticks to his long-standing pledge to retire after ten films, final) directorial effort calledThe Movie Critichas fallen into the hands of David Fincher. Now Fincher is planning to direct Tarantinos script.According to Deadline, it was actually Brad Pittwhogot Tarantinos blessing to show the script to his Se7en,Fight Club, andCurious Case of Benjamin Buttondirector. PittsOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodcharacter, stuntman Cliff Booth, is reportedly a key character in the movie, andPitthad previously agreed to return for the film when Tarantino was originally going to direct it. (The project was called off in the spring of last year.)Once Upon a Time in HollywoodSonyloading...Bysome accounts, this all started when Tarantino wrote a script calledThe Movie Critic about a film writer at a seedy Los Angeles magazine in the 1970s, with Pitt set to play Cliff Booth again in a supporting role. That would have made it a sort of sequel to Tarantinos 2019 movieOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood, where Pitt played Booth opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as fading TV star Rick Dalton.there were reports that after Pitt agreed to return for The Movie Critic, Tarantinos concepts morphed into something more akin to[Tarantinos] novelization ofOnce Upon, which had a lot more of Booths story than was seen in the movie.The Playlist claims the version that Fincher is nowin line todirect sounds very much like a Cliff Booth film though most plot details are unknown. Whether the movie critic angle has been dropped completely is not clear. (Deadline claims the titlelikely corresponded to the fact that Booths passion for movie watching was explored in detail, so who knows whether the critic aspectwasever actually a big part of it.)Either way,multiple reports say that Fincher wantsto direct Pitt as Booth in this Tarantino script, and that Netflix is funding the project andwould distribute it. The Playlist even claims that the movie could wind up being shot in California this summer. I just hopethe whole thing isreally not an April Fools Day joke.Get our free mobile appEvery Tarantino Movie Ranked From Worst to Best