Director Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” is set to shoot this summer. A story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood, before the Charles Manson’s cult murder of actress Sharon Tate, the final pieces of the cast is falling into place.
Today, Sony announced additions to the cast including Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Clifton Collins Jr, Keith Jefferson and Nicholas Hammond in supporting roles. The film stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Brad Pitt and already includes Burt Reynolds, Timothy Olyphant, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Margot Robbie, who will play Sharon Tate.
The film, which will portray real-life people like filmmaker Roman Polanski— Tate’s lover before she was murdered, while pregnant with their child—will include many famous figures around Hollywood. Here’s what Deadline has to say about who plays who.
Lewis will play the iconic actor Steve McQueen; Fanning is set as Squeaky Fromme, the Manson disciple who later tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford; Hammond will play director Sam Wanamaker; and Hirsch is Jay Sebring, the Hollywood hairstylist who was one of four victims in the Tate murders on Cielo Drive.
Perry is set to play Scotty Lancer, Collins is Ernesto The Mexican Vaquero, and Keith Jefferson is Land Pirate Keith. It’s the third Tarantino film for Jefferson, who also appeared in The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained.
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Said to be “Pulp Fiction”-esque, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” centers on the exploits of a former star of a western TV series (DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double (Pitt). What the plot of the movie is maybe like a little like explaining the aforementioned 1994 film that launched Tarantino’s career. Narratively aimless, but obviously still compelling, “Pulp Fiction” really just follows characters wandering around L.A. rather than focusing on any traditional plot points, character arcs or endgame goals.
“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” will be released worldwide on August 9, 2019, a similar date to Tarantino’s successful, aforementioned “Inglourious Basterds.” It will be the first Weinstein-free Tarantino release.
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