First Look: Brad Pitt & Leonardo DiCaprio In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’

Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s, Los Angeles picture “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” is underway and shooting now. With paparazzi about to be everywhere, the Sony production, Tarantino and its actors have gotten ahead of the curve and through Leonardo DiCaprio’s Instagram account where the actor has provided the first look of the film of he and co-star Brad Pitt.

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The movie is set in the summer of 1969 in Hollywood and DiCaprio plays a struggling actor and Western TV star and Brad Pitt, his longtime stuntman and friend. The movie is set before and leading up to the Charles Manson murders and stars Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, the actress and girlfriend of Roman Polanski who was murdered while pregnant by the Manson followers (the director will also appear in the movie, but it hasn’t been revealed who will play him yet). “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” is also said to have a mosaic-like “Pulp Fiction” vibe about many characters in sprawling 1960s Los Angeles.

In Tarantino’s drama his two protagonists are at sea trying to navigate a Hollywood that is going through a transformation in the late-1960s. Everything grows more complicated when you find out that DiCaprio’s neighbor is none other than Sharon Tate, who will soon be murdered by the infamous Manson Family (one has to wonder if Tarantino will attempt to rewrite history like he did with “Inglourious Basterds“).

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Tarantino has long been a fan of 1960s and 1970s television shows and Westerns like “Bonanza” and there’s definitely that denimy “The Fall Guy” – about a cowboy stuntman who makes his stars look good—vibe to the picture of DiCaprio and Pitt (admittedly, the show is an ’80s one, but the idea still fits).

“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” also stars Timothy Olyphant, Al Pacino,Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch, Clifton Collins Jr, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Keith Jefferson, Nicholas Hammond, Scoot McNairy and of course whomever ends up playing Polanski. Seriously, this is the Tarantino equivalent of “Avengers: Infinity War,” and one might worry about it being a mess, but he pulled it off in spades with “Pulp Fiction,” the film that made his career.

“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” hits theaters August 9, 2019.