The book is a remix of the movieīefore OUATIH arrived in 2019, the question of how Tarantino would handle the historical aspects of his period piece loomed large over the movie’s release.

Photo: Andrew Cooper/Columbia Pictures 1. Below are eight takeaways from the book, which is available June 29. Tarantino being Tarantino, he also takes the opportunity to revisit some of the film’s more provocative moments, and to further hint at an alleged fetish of his. It makes room for new backstories, letting him dive down historical rabbit holes both real and invented, juxtaposing Rick and Cliff’s adventures against the darker corners of actual Hollywood history. Still, the movie hints at a whole iceberg of character backstories and revised Hollywood history beneath its surface, so it was only a matter of time before Tarantino found an excuse to hang out with Rick and his stand-in and best friend Cliff (Brad Pitt) just a little longer.īranded to look like a mass-market paperback from the 1970s, Tarantino’s first novel - the book version of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - tells the same basic story as the movie while expanding in every direction. Hollywood is a heartfelt hangout film set in a fairytale iteration of the Los Angeles Tarantino grew up in, and the director takes his time in exploring every corner of it, from its bromances to its cars to its movie theaters.

His most recent film, 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, shows off some of that legwork, digressing repeatedly into voiceover recaps about the acting career of protagonist Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), and tracking the arc of Rick’s made-up filmography with IMDb-like specificity. When Quentin Tarantino writes his films, he tends to obsess over the kind of minutiae that may never make it to the screen, fleshing out detailed backstories for tertiary characters, and sometimes drafting entire screenplays for fictional TV shows that exist within the world of the movie.

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