Trailer For Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Novelization Feature New Footage Cut From the Film

As you’ve heard by now, Quentin Tarantino has written a novelization of his 2019 hit film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for HarperCollins. We’ve got a trailer for that novel for you to watch today and it features some new footage from the actual film that didn’t end up making the final cut.

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.”

It’ll be great to see these wonderful characters explored 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.

“I think if you’re a fan of the movie, I think you will get a kick out of reading the book, and exploring the characters further and deeper, and learning secrets that you didn’t know, and were not in the movie. It’s not just me taking the screenplay and then breaking it down in a novelistic form. I retold the story as a novel. So it’s not like, ‘Oh, okay, well he obviously had a few scenes left over, so he just took the screenplay and novelized it and threw in a few extra scenes.’ It was a complete rethinking of the entire story and not just a rethinking as far as throwing some scenes that were left out of the editing room. But I did so much research.”

The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel arrives on June 29th and I don’t know about you, but I’m excited about reading it!