Quentin Tarantino shared some initial details about his upcoming film, The Movie Critic, on Thursday from Cannes saying it centers on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.

There was this porno rag that had a really interesting movie page, Tarantino told Deadline about a real-life film critic he said he encountered in his youth. He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic. I think he was a very good critic. He was as cynical as hell.

Tarantino did not name the writer but likened his temperament to that of early Howard Stern and Taxi Driver protagonist Travis Bickle, whose red-flag-riddled journal foretold his murderous rampage in the Martin Scorsese film.

Think about Travis diary entries, Tarantino told Deadline.

Tarantino has been a lifelong fan of film criticism, hailing the late Pauline Kael as one of his film critic heroes . He also recently published a cinema-related memoir of his own .

The director told Deadline that the real-life critic who inspired his latest movie cursed, was rude as hell and even used racial slurs, but that the criticism he produced was really funny. Tarantino said the writer died in his late 30s and he suspects that it was because of complications due to alcoholism.