Quentin Tarantino to write 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' novel
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Director Quentin Tarantino is heading back to the world of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with a new novel that will expand on his original award-winning film.
The new adaptation is part of a two-book deal the Oscar-winning filmmaker has inked with publisher HarperCollins.
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Due out next summer, the novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood won’t simply recount the action in his 2019 movie, with HarperCollins promising in a press release that his adaptation will offer up a “fresh, playful and shocking departure from the film.”
It will follow the lives of Tarantino’s protagonists — TV actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) — both forward and backward in time.
“In the seventies movie novelizations were the first adult books I grew up reading,” says 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 as 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.”
Set in 1969 in the leadup to the infamous Manson Family murders, Tarantino’s ninth movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won two, including a Best Supporting Actor nod for Pitt.
The second book Tarantino will pen will be Cinema Speculation, a work of nonfiction HarperCollins says “will be 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.”
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Tarantino’s transition to novelist shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. The director has often stated he will retire from filmmaking after he completes his still-to-be-determined 10th movie.
“I think when it comes to theatrical movies, I’ve come to the end of the road,” he said last year in an interview with GQ Australia. “I see myself writing books and starting to write theatre, so I’ll still be creative. I just think I’ve given all I have to give to movies.”
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