Quentin Tarantino's Manson murders movie

So anyway:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-wins-worldwide-rights-next-quentin-tarantino-film-1059385

A source tells The Hollywood Reporter that the Tarantino film has to make $375 million worldwide to break even.

jesus, did Django even make that much worldwide?

This is all going to be his origin story/tie-in for the entire Tarantino Cinematic Universe, you realize.

Sony Pictures has won the showdown for the right to finance and distribute Quentin Tarantino’s next movie, which has the working title #9.

The "working title" is encouraging, as it suggests that there is a small hope that he might not actually be doing this Manson thing, right?

xxpost just shy of $450m http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Django-Unchained#tab=summary

xp it's his ninth film & Manson connection = Revolution 9

Django was his (sorry) New Jersey.

They'll be hoping for Django size numbers rather than The Hateful Eight's $145m.

Word is that the Manson murders will be more a background element/'something in the air,' which strikes me as the smart way around it.

I am dreading this movie

seeing unconfirmed reports that Manson has died, thought that's what the bump was about here

reports about Manson dying are kind of perennial, i know he's in the hospital but this has happened like 12-14 times in my lifetime

lots of wishful thinking in the past, but fingers crossed this is the real deal

it'll be his Summer of Sam, except even worse

"Worse than Summer of Sam" would actually be quite an accomplishment in its own way.

So QT simply gets away with this sorry excuse? He knew about several cases, never said a damn thing, earned his bucks through him? Really?

why wouldn't he? isn't his core audience disproportionately men with little taste and judgment?

and me :)

that's a weird thing to say, I know a lot of female QT fans

well they may not be the core, they just have a warped idea of irony and don't understand Sergio Leone (like you).

Morbs, true. Srsly though if we're talking about burning it down, and I'm behind that, at the very least this weasily, opportune, talentless scumbag enabler shouldn't escape the purge.

"Worse than Summer of Sam" would actually be quite an accomplishment in its own way.

QT's made maybe 2 films that are better than Summer of Sam.

well given that he's made only 3 good films... no, you mean 3

over and out Charlie, you little weirdo

In Loving Memory of
Charles Manson

THE NINTH FILM BY QUENTIN TARANTINO

that sounds abt right

According to Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr., in Quentin Tarantino’s next project, Leonardo DiCaprio will play “an actor who had his own Western show, Bounty Law, that ran on the air from 1958 to 1963. His attempt to transition to movies didn’t work out and in 1969—the film is set at the height of hippy Hollywood movement—he’s guesting on other people’s shows while contemplating going to Italy which has become a hotbed for low-budget Westerns.”

http://deadline.com/2018/01/leo-dicaprio-quentin-tarantino-film-gender-argument-wrong-mark-wahlberg-michelle-williams-all-the-money-in-the-world-1202244988/

That's definitely a unique lens through which to examine the Manson murders.

And that cowboy was named . . . "Shorty" O'Shea. And now you know the rest of the story!

I mean I doubt it but it would be very Tarantinoesque for him to tell the story via this peripheral nobody.

Clint Eastwood . . . secretsssssss!

the Shorty angle would be great if that’s what he’s doing

That piece says Tom Cruise may be in the film too, so I doubt he's going to keep this to one plot (or 2.5 hours).

Doesn't literally match up with Eastwood, he went to Europe in '64.

GOD dammit leave the Westerns behind!!!!!

sounds good tho

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/brad-pitt-leonardo-dicaprio-quentin-tarantinos-manson-movie-1202713925/

The film will be released worldwide on August 9, 2019. Opening on the 50th anniversary of the day that the Manson family committed the LaBianca murders and the day after Tate was killed

Seriously, fuck this guy and the studio who thinks this is a cool idea.

"DiCaprio will play Rick Dalton, former star of a western TV series, while Pitt will be his longtime stunt double, Cliff Booth."

Two of the most famous and expensive actors in the world, set to play two people--and I've read a fair amount about the murders over the years--I've never heard of (are they fictionalized?)

Yes.

Good work, QT.

if he plays this "straight" (aka in the vein of Jackie Brown) and not like his exploitation movies I bet it could be good

I fear those days are long behind him.

Didn't he only ever play it "straight" (aka in the vein of Jackie Brown) in, er, Jackie Brown?

I fear those days are long behind him.

― Simon H., Thursday, March 1, 2018 9:07 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not so sure. Every movie he's done since Jackie Brown (besides maybe Death Proof) has been a heavily stylized/high concept genre exercise or period piece. The fact that this is the first movie he's made based on real events, and that it takes place in the relatively recent past suggest that he'll take a more realistic approach to the material. I don't know how you can do this with cartoon characters. I have a feeling it'll be closer to Pulp Fiction than Jackie Brown w/r/t all that, which is fine by me.

I watched Reservoir Dogs for the first time in years, some if it has aged really bad (his Madonna spiel seems particularly repugnant now) but it really did show up his later stuff as being so flabby, so labored in accomplishing relatively little.

guys jackie brown is 20 years old. this is gonna be 3.5 hours long with 100 characters

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/judge-decides-grandson-will-get-charles-mansons-body/ar-BBK9uhm

"A Manson friend and memorabilia collector"--I hope his claim on the body was motivated by the former, not the latter.

by the way for thread posterity this movie is (currently) titled ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

Jackie brown is by far the best Tarantino movie

well yeah

Starring Burt Reynolds