Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Novel Coming in 2021 Will Explore The Characters Further
Quentin Tarantino has teamed up with HarperCollins for a two-book deal that includes a novelization of his 2019 hit film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, as well as a nonfiction book he’s writing about ’70s cinema titled Cinema Speculation.
The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel “will chart the lives of Tarantino’s two protagonists – TV actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth – both forward and backward in time. It will also feature a more extended look at Rick and Cliff’s time in making Spaghetti Westerns in Italy. The novel will also get to introduced some characters that weren’t seen in the film including the late Burt Reynolds, Pete Duel, Jim Brown and Fred Williamson.”
I love the fact that the book will explore these wonderful characters further and provide some new details on their lives that we didn’t know before. Tarantino said in a statement:
“In the seventies movie novelizations were the first adult books I grew up reading. And to this day I have a tremendous amount of affection for the genre. So as a movie-novelization aficionado, I’m proud to announce ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ my contribution to this often marginalized, yet beloved sub-genre in literature. I’m also thrilled to further explore my characters and their world in a literary endeavor that can (hopefully) sit alongside its cinematic counterpart.”
The book is expected to be published in the summer of 2021, starting as a Harper Perennial mass market paperback, alongside e-book and digital audio edition. A deluxe hardcover edition will then be released in the fall of next year.
As for Cinema Speculation, this nonfiction novel will take “a deep dive into the movies of the 1970’s, a rich mix of essays, reviews, personal writing and tantalizing “what if’s,” from one of cinema’s most celebrated filmmakers, and its most devoted fan.”
Will you be picking up a copy of either of these books to read when they are released?
Source: Deadline