Tarantino working on Manson movie
Quentin Tarantino is reportedly developing a film about the Manson family murders.
Because conspiracy theories and mass slayings sound like perfect fodder for a Tarantino film, no?
The unique take on Los Angeles’ grisly 1969 murders is said to be written by Tarantino, who is putting the finishing touches on the script and is talking to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence to fill out the cast, the Hollywood Reporter said.
Weinstein Co. producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who have produced several of the director’s films, are also involved, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The plan is to shoot in 2018.
It’s not clear what part of the Manson saga the filmmaker is focusing on, or whether it’s a historical account or an interpretation in the vein of his 2009 World War II drama, “Inglourious Basterds.”
Cult leader Charles Manson and several of his followers were convicted of killing “Valley of the Dolls” actress Sharon Tate, who was married to filmmaker Roman Polanski and eight months pregnant at the time, and six other people during a brutal rampage over two nights in August 1969. Prosecutors said Manson was trying to incite a race war that he believed was prophesied in the Beatles song “Helter Skelter.” He is serving a life sentence in California State Prison.