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Quentin Tarantino‘s next film as director will be a film based on the Manson family murders of Sharon Tate and the LaBianca’s will be called Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Sony Pictures also revealed that actors Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are now officially attention to star in the film.
The acclaimed filmmaker described the film as “a story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood. The two lead characters are Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore. But Rick has a very famous next-door neighbor … Sharon Tate.”
Tarantino also explained that he has been working on the script for five years and lived in Los Angeles most of his life, including in 1969 when the Tate-LaBianca murders took place.
Both Pitt and DiCaprio have worked with Quentin Tarantino before. Pitt starred in the critically-acclaimed WWII film Inglorious Basterds (2009) where he played a Nazi-hunting lieutenant and DiCaprio starred in Django Unchained where DiCaprio played the villainous plantation owner.
The plans are for the film to be released on Aug. 9, 2019 which also happens to be the fiftieth anniversary of the Tate murders.
