Brad Pitt teams up with Quentin Tarantino in his upcoming next alongside Leonardo diCaprio

By Ramsha Akhtar

on March 02, 2018

Quentin Tarantino's ninth directorial venture, based on the Manson Murders has finally roped in Brad Pitt. The film that was shrouded in mystery and conjecture up to this point with many rumours related to Charles Manson and the horrific murder of Sharon Tate has finally been titled as 'Once Upon A Time in Hollywood'.

The two actors will be seen sharing the screen for the first time in "a story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood" as described by the director. Although reports have pegged current “I, Tonya” Oscar nominee Margot Robbie for the role of Tate, there is no official word on that front yet. Buzz is the director has also approached Samuel L Jackson, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lawrence for the film.

Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the production will feature DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, the former star of a western TV series, and Pitt as his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. They’re both struggling to survive in a Hollywood they no longer recognize. Although, one person they do recognize is Rick’s next-door neighbour Tate.

"I've been working on this script for five years, as well as living in Los Angeles County most of my life, including in 1969, when I was seven years old,” says Tarantino. “I’m very excited to tell this story of an L.A. and a Hollywood that don’t exist anymore. And I couldn’t be happier about the dynamic teaming of DiCaprio & Pitt as Rick & Cliff," said Tarantino in a recent interview.

Pitt starred in Tarantino’s WWII story “Inglourious Basterds,” which grossed over $321 million worldwide and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning best supporting actor for Christoph Waltz. DiCaprio starred in Tarantino’s slavery-era tale “Django Unchained,” which brought in more than $425 million worldwide and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning original screenplay for Tarantino and a second supporting actor Oscar for Waltz.

This will also mark the first project which Tarantino will release without the Weinstein Company. Tarantino had earlier received a lot of backlash for keeping mum about Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault. He said, "There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things. I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard. If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him."

The film is slated to hit the silver screen on August 9, 2019 which also will be the 50th anniversary since the news of Tate-LaBianca murders came out. It will head off against “Artemis Fowl,” Disney’s adaptation of the popular sci-fi and fantasy series.