Quentin Tarantino's Manson murders movie

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

oh that should go well

I will be very surprised if this is any good.

"I believe this just might be my masterpiece" was a sadly prophetic final line of dialogue, cuz it's been all downhill from there.

my brother-in-law told me when i last saw him that he's editing a new movie starring dr. who as manson. directed by mary harron.

the dr. who who was in The Crown.

dr who-who.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR6qvkDDBCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqlXSshv0wA

Would pay to see Tarantino's Dr. Wu movie.

my brother-in-law told me when i last saw him that he's editing a new movie starring dr. who as manson. directed by mary harron.

https://d1nao0k9edgivc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Doctor-Who-The-Day-Of-The-Doctor-50th-616x415.jpg

https://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Peter-Cushing-Doctor-Who.jpg

Burt:"Does this character have a name?"
D.A: "His name...is Charles Manson--aka Charlie, aka Jesus, aka the Devil."
Deputy D.A.: "His partner's name is Tex Watson."
Burt: "Those are great names!"

I was in a used book store on the weekend, and they had the Manson Life magazine on the wall. First physical copy I've ever laid eyes on. I'm real cheap when it comes to used records and books--I'd pay maybe $15 for that. It was priced at $50.

Our family subscribed to Life at that time, but I'm sure it was tossed eventually, like every other issue.

you can get one for 20+ on ebay. i just checked.

Thanks. For me, it'd actually end up costing more than the $50 after postage ($15) and exchange.

Google Books To Rescue: Google Books To The Rescue!

FWIW, I'm a small-time dealer of vintage advertising, specifically old magazine ads, and $50 for that mag seems a bit exorbitant. They probably pulled it out and marked it up after Charlie bit it.

Thanks for digging that up (so to speak)--will make a concerted effort to read the article.

The Jann Wenner bio talked about the Rolling Stone cover story, and how the counterculture's view of Manson changed between the murders and the tril. Not sure where the Life cover story falls on the timeline, but Rolling Stone was originally going to publish a piece that basically presented Manson as a victim of hippie profiling. Something changed in the interim--maybe the Life story fits in there--and by the time they went to press, they had joined everyone in seeing him for what he was.

"trial"

"trial"

― clemenza, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:37 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed, Manson's trial was a sham

It was a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham of a tril.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bphR-6Xi1_I

On closer inspection, that magazine is a trip. In addition to the cover story, there's Albert Goldman on the posthumous fame of Lord Buckley, a Richard Schickel movie roundup with a funny still of Hoffman & Farrow in John And Mary, a shit-ton of xmas booze ads, and two pages of readers letters about My Lai, which I heartily recommend reading.

In related stuff, here is the issue with their initial coverage of the Tate murders.

Also, becasue I keep seeing this on Buzzr every few months, here's Jay Sebring on To Tell The Truth in 1963:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDxk_9YlkUc

Only interested in the Tarantino movie if Polanski plays himself.

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Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD making its presence known out on Hollywood Blvd. pic.twitter.com/YQ17IJPcaO

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