“Pulp Fiction” director Quentin Tarantino and “Groundhog Day” star Bill Murray have seemingly ended their “feud,” sources tell Page Six — and the pair even dined together at the Sundance Film Festival.
A source said that the cinematic détente was brokered by film critic Elvis Mitchell who has been hosting exclusive talks with movie icons in his “The Elvis Suite” pop-up, presented by Darling&Co.
A source exclusively told Page Six on Tuesday, “Bill and Quentin are having dinner together tonight at ‘The Elvis Suite’ [after] Elvis Mitchell brought them both to Sundance, and brought them back together after a long feud!”
The movie insider added of the Hollywood legends, “They are both great friends of Elvis and were flown in only for their conversations with him.”
The duo apparently “both drank Old Fashioned [cocktails] and chatted to each other prior to dinner!”
Tarantino, 61, famously dissed Murray’s movies in his 2022 book, “Cinema Speculation,” when writing a critique of filmmaking in the ’80s.
“Complex and complicated lead characters of the ’70s were the characters that ’80s cinema avoided completely,” Tarantino reportedly wrote at the time.
“Complex characters aren’t necessarily sympathetic. Interesting people aren’t always likable. But in the Hollywood of the ’80s, likability was everything.”
He continued, “If you did make a movie about a f–king bastard, you could bet that F–KING bastard would see the error of their ways and be redeemed in the last 20 minutes. Like for example, all of Bill Murray‘s characters.”
He went on, breaking down the former “SNL” star’s body of work, “How does Murray in ‘Stripes’ go from being an iconoclastic pain in the ass, who deserves to get beat up by Drill Sergeant Warren Oates, to rallying the troops (‘That’s the fact, Jack!’), and masterminding a covert mission on foreign soil? And ‘Stripes’ was one of the hip movies.”
He added, “Film critics always preferred Bill Murray to Chevy Chase. Yet, more often than not, Chase remained the same sarcastic aloof a–hole at the film’s end he was at the beginning. Or at least his conversion wasn’t the whole point of the movie as it was in ‘Scrooged’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’”
The “Jackie Brown” director also wrote, “Admittedly, when you don’t give a f–k about other people’s feelings, it probably does wonders for your caustic wit. But I’ve always rejected the idea that Bill Murray’s characters needed redemption. Yeah, maybe he charmed Andie MacDowell [in ‘Groundhog Day’], but does anybody think a less sarcastic Bill Murray is a better Bill Murray?”
Murray — who is also a regular in the films of auteurs Wes Anderson and Jim Jarmusch — never publicly responded to the Tarantino diss.
Murray, 74, told Mitchell in a talk at Sundance that he, at least, is a fan of those old films.
“I like to check in on them because not everything holds up,” he said. “You like to know they hold up. Like ‘What about Bob?’ I hadn’t seen that in 15 years and I recently watched it and thought, goddam it — that was funny!”
Mitchell talked to Murray and Tarantino separately in his “Elvis Suite,” and also talked to “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo at the Park City, Utah, fest.
George Clooney also seemingly had a recent beef with Tarantino after the director said the onetime “ER” actor was “not a movie star.”
“Quentin said some s–t about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” the “Ocean’s Eleven” star said in a GQ cover interview last year alongside Brad Pitt.
“He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about [Pitt] and somebody else, and then this [interviewer] goes, ‘Well, what about George?’ He goes, ‘He’s not a movie star.’”
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