Tarantino has deal for 2 books on films
Director has a two-book deal, beginning with a novelization of “Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood.”
NEW YORK » Quentin Tarantino’s next work of imagination will be in book form.
The Oscar-winning director has a twobook deal with Harper, beginning with a novelization of “Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood” that is scheduled for next summer. “Once Upon a Time” will be a true Tarantino production: The book will come out first as a mass market paperback, like the old pulp novels the filmmaker loves, and will offer “a fresh, playful and shocking departure from the film,” according to Harper.
The film version of “Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood” was released in 2019 and stars Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards and winner of two, the movie is set in Los Angeles in 1969, around the time of the killings by Charles Manson’s followers.
“In the ’70s movie novelizations were the first adult books I grew up reading,” Tarantino said in a statement. “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’ as 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.”
Tarantino’s second book will be the nonfiction “Cinema Speculation,” which Harper is calling “a deep dive into the movies of the 1970s” that draws in part on the director’s admiration for the late New Yorker critic Pauline Kael.
A release date has not been determined.