Quentin Tarantino Says We Could See A 4-Hour 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' Cut Next Year

Is Quentin Tarantino becoming the new Francis Ford Coppola, and could we see the filmmaker tinkering with his films on end for years? The director already recut “The Hateful Eight” as a series on Netflix. It’s largely the same, but it’s chaptered up, and there are a lot of subtle new things to it. He also still has a “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” with a new animated sequence in it to eventually release (it was shown theatrically a few years ago, but has never come out).

Now, Tarantino sounds like he’s going to be delivering a much longer, extended version of “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.” Already 161 minutes long, at a recent screening Special FYC screening at the ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles (captured by Collider), the filmmaker suggested he may release a supercut next year.

The film already re-added 10 minutes to the movie in a re-release earlier this year. When they were deciding what to add, before that re-release, Tarantino then talked about showing the longer version to Sony’s chief Tom Rothman for guidance.

It’s all good. It’s all great. I don’t know if an audience would sit for it, but I love it,” he said. “So, we showed it to Tom Rothman, and it was like, ‘OK, here this all is. We know that this is a movie, but maybe you can help us out because we like everything.’”

Brad Pitt was at the Q&A as well, and he basically asked what every fan was just about to ask: “The real question is, are we going to get to see this one way or another?,” Pitt queried.

The crowd apparently cheered to the question, and Tarantino replied. “Hey, look, it’s all good, so once this whole thing is said and done, maybe in a year’s time, we probably will.”

So, that’s not confirmation, but Pitt has already suggested that his director has been toying with the idea of releasing the film as a mini-series on Netflix, so it sounds like just a matter of time at this point.

Additionally, like everyone else in Hollywood, “this whole thing is said and done,” means, everyone is waiting to see what the Oscars hold for their movies, how many nominations they get and what they may or may not ultimately win. Like Todd Phillips and “Joker,” I think it’s pretty clear, everyone wants to see what happens with the Oscars first before they make any hard and fast decisions about their future, because right now, that’s all anyone can really think about, given how much they’re still promoting their films.