What’s the point of a version of
Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood without Brad Pitt? That’s a question filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is aiming to answer with the release of a novelized take on his 2019 movie which featured Pitt as Cliff Booth, Hollywood stuntman to the stars (namely, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Rick Dalton).The film reimagined the events of the summer of 1969 when Charles Manson and his followers terrorized upscale Los Angeles neighbourhoods with a string of violent murders targeting the wealthy and quasi-famous. Like in
Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino takes actual historical events and gives them the righteous ending he would have liked them to have received in real life. We won’t spoil
Once Upon A Time here but the finale is, in a word, epic.Tarantino has inked a deal with publishers HarperCollins to write two books, a task not totally outside his wheelhouse considering the fact that he’s the author of two Oscar-winning screenplays (for
Pulp Fiction and
Django Unchained).
Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood (the book) is due out next summer. Its screenplay, too, received an Academy Award nomination, along with nine other nominations at the 2020 Oscars celebration. The novelization,
Deadline reports, will focus more intently on the film’s two main leads (played by Pitt and DiCaprio), detailing their lives both before and after the events depicted in the movie and drawing in characters who didn’t make the final cut of the film.[video_embed id='1896501']BEFORE YOU GO: ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’ costume designer dishes on Quentin Tarantino[/video_embed]“In the seventies movie novelizations were the first adult books I grew up reading,” said Tarantino. “And to this day I have a tremendous amount of affection for the genre. So as a movie-novelization aficionado, I’m proud to announce
Once Upon A Time In... Hollywood my contribution to this often marginalized, yet beloved sub-genre in literature. I’m also thrilled to further explore my characters and their world in a literary endeavor that can (hopefully) sit alongside its cinematic counterpart.”For his second book, Tarantino will switch gears and pen a non-fiction tome titled
Cinema Speculation that will, says his publisher, be a “deep dive into the movies of the 1970’s, a rich mix of essays, reviews, personal writing, and tantalizing ‘what if’s,’ from one of cinema’s most celebrated filmmakers, and its most devoted fan.” Film nerds take note: this book will also be out in 2021.[video_embed id='2075240']BEFORE YOU GO: This dog is an expert at giving hugs and our hosts can't handle it[/video_embed]
