[Brother Leon]

Leonardo DiCaprio hasn’t been in a bad movie yet. Don’t think he will start with this either.

[LaLaLand]

[Tony Montana]

Originally Posted by Jonnii

Mess

Nice avi btw Jonnii

[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by Tony Montana

Mess

Nice avi btw Jonnii

Cheers! Thought it was time for an overhaul. Name will hopefully be changing soon too, seeing as I've become somewhat of a movie-nerd on this forum I'm going with "Hollywood".

[Tony Montana]

Originally Posted by Jonnii

Cheers! Thought it was time for an overhaul. Name will hopefully be changing soon too, seeing as I've become somewhat of a movie-nerd on this forum I'm going with "Hollywood".

How long did you have your avi for? And who was it?

[Tony Montana]

''Hollywood'' would be a great username tho

[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by Tony Montana

How long did you have your avi for? And who was it?

It was Miley Cyrus from when she went all scandalous, so from about 2013? I don't even like Miley Cyrus I just thought it was eye catching with the tongue!

I think I had Prince's logo before that for a while!

[Tony Montana]

Originally Posted by Jonnii

It was Miley Cyrus from when she went all scandalous, so from about 2013? I don't even like Miley Cyrus I just thought it was eye catching with the tongue!

I think I had Prince's logo before that for a while!

Wow I never even realised that was Miley, I thought it may have been some character from an old sitcom or something

Prince tho

[LaLaLand]

I guess things are gonna be really quiet on this front for a month or two now.

Found this article though which was interesting, gives dates re: things picked up in the trailer (movie marquees on the cinemas, Bruce Lee's costume, the "Hullaballoo" show etc) that clarifies it being a multi-year storyline and not just set in the Summer of 1969...

Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Teaser Drops Timely Clues It Goes Back Way Before the Manson Murders

Brief summary:

1. Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard decked out for a new film called “Krakatoa: East of Java.” The film debuted on March 14, 1969.
2. We see a marquee for “The Night They Raided Minsky’s". “Minsky’s” came out December 22 1968.
3. Bruce Lee is clearly dressed as Kato, his character on “The Green Hornet”. That show ended in March 1967.
4. Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) dancing on the goofy real-life NBC show “Hulabaloo". “Hulabaloo” ended in April 1966.
5. Billboard for Zeffirelli's "Romeo & Juliet". That movie was released October 8 1968.

Not to mention that Leo's show "Bounty Law" ended pre-1965, supposedly.

[LaLaLand]

According to a recent report by Showbiz411 writer Roger Friedman, OUATIH's status remains "not a lock" for the Cannes Film Festival, likely due to Tarantino still editing the movie. This comes just prior to a Cannes related article from Variety, which states: "insiders say only a handful of films have been told officially that they’ve landed a slot." To be ready in time, Tarantino has been editing and working hard according to fest director Thierry Frémaux, who will announce the official lineup next week on Thursday, April 18.

Oop.

[LaLaLand]

2 days until we find out if this movie will play Cannes, here's hoping! QT has been frantically editing for the past few months to make sure it's ready in time.

[LaLaLand]

MAJOR update!!

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#PierreLescure president of the Cannes Film Festival just said 5 minutes ago, that Tarantino will be in Cannes and that the film lasts between 2H30 and 3H00

2h30-3h runtime!!

[LaLaLand]

Quentin Tarantino has offered some new Once Upon a Time in Hollywood character details – specifically in regards to the roles played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. ... According to Tarantino, DiCaprio’s character is a self-pitying has-been, and Pitt plays “one of the deadliest guys alive.”

According to the director, DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton is “a man full of inner turmoil and self-pity for not being in a better position, career-wise. But as is Rick’s way, he blames everybody but himself.” This will no doubt lead to several comical situations, some of which have already been teased in the film’s trailer.

As for Pitt’s Cliff Booth, Tarantino describes the character as an “indestructible…World War II hero and one of the deadliest guys alive.” The director adds: “He could kill you with a spoon, a piece of paper or a business card. Consequently, he is a rather Zen dude who is troubled by very little.” Pitt can also excel at comedy, given the right material – as he did in Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. I’m sold on all of this, and I’d like to see this movie immediately.

[Tony Montana]

''one of the deadliest guys alive''

Sounds intriguing and cool.

Perched

[Tony Montana]

It's a good thing the film is more than 2hrs

2hrs wouldn't do justice to it.

[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by Tony Montana

''one of the deadliest guys alive''

Sounds intriguing and cool.

Perched

Does doesn't it? This must be why he gets to fight Bruce Lee

Originally Posted by Tony Montana

It's a good thing the film is more than 2hrs

2hrs wouldn't do justice to it.

I think we're in for a real "saga" with this one, I can't wait.

We could see the fall of old Hollywood (Westerns) and rise of the new, changing, independent cinema. The beginnings and progression of Manson's madness from possible Beach Boy to cult leader and of course, Tate's cruelly cut-short career.

[Tony Montana]

Apparently there's a very strong chance Kurt Russel's character is Stuntman Mike

So here for this if true Mike is one of Tarantino's best characters and is criminally underrated.

There's a very real possibility that Kurt Russell's character in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Stuntman Mike from Death Proof. In the age of multiverses and shared cinematic universes, it's hardly unprecedented for characters to cross over into other films - something Tarantino's been doing since Reservoir Dogs.

In 2007, Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez released a double feature throwback to grindhouse pictures of the 1970s aptly titled Grindhouse. Rodriguez's no holds-barred zombie film Planet Terror opens up the twofer, and after a series of fake movie trailers from directors like Rob Zombie and Edgar Wright, Tarantino's Death Proof is the second and final film. It centers around a Hollywood stuntman-turned-killer named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) whose weapons of choice are a 1971 Chevy Nova and a 1969 Dodge Charger. Giving new meaning to road rage, Stuntman Mike proves his talent behind the wheel of a car in Death Proof, but his Hollywood connections make it very possible he might have some kind of role to play in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

https://screenrant.com/once-upon-tim...stuntman-mike/

[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by Tony Montana

Apparently there's a very strong chance Kurt Russel's character is Stuntman Mike

So here for this if true Mike is one of Tarantino's best characters and is criminally underrated.



https://screenrant.com/once-upon-tim...stuntman-mike/

This would be incredible. Redemption for Death Proof!! Such a good movie. People who didn't like it simply didn't "get it", like it was meant to be amateur and "bad", but that's what makes it so good!

[LaLaLand]

AMAZING new article of an interview with producer David Heyman, spoiler tags added because it's quite hefty:

Spoiler:

The first thing you need to know about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is that it is not a Charles Manson-murders movie, according to producer David Heyman.

“That’s one of the big misconceptions to clarify,” he tells EW. As part of EW’s Summer Movie Preview, Heyman and producer Shannon McIntosh, who’s worked with Tarantino for more than two decades, cleared up some mystery around the plot of Tarantino’s anticipated movie and teased some intriguing details.

Set in 1969, Once Upon a Time brings together Leonardo DiCaprio as fading Western TV star Rick Dalton and Brad Pitt as his stunt double Cliff Booth, two friends navigating an industry and era in flux, painstakingly re-created on location in Los Angeles by Tarantino. But Charles Manson and his deadly cult do play an important role in the film; Australian actor Damon Herriman plays the infamous cult leader, while Margaret Qualley, Dakota Fanning, and Lena Dunham play members of his Manson Family.

“It’s about the loss of innocence that came about in 1969 with the Manson family,” explains McIntosh. There’s the starry Margot Robbie as It Girl and eventual Manson-family victim Sharon Tate, who lives next door to Rick. “It’s the three classes of Hollywood,” says Heyman. “There’s the high Hollywood of Sharon, the declining star of Rick, and there’s Cliff, who lives farther out and with more humble means.”

But first thing’s first — pairing DiCaprio and Pitt together for the first time in a feature is one of the biggest draws of the project. For McIntosh, who worked with Pitt on Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and DiCaprio on Django Unchained, bringing the two together finally was “absolutely magnetic.”

“I can’t wait for the world to see Brad’s performance in this,” she says. “He’s so wonderful and charismatic and I think he is the Brad that people fell in love with years ago. Especially when he’s going toe-to-toe with Leo, his performance is amazing, he looks great and I think people will be reminded why he is the movie star that we know he is.”

And there’s an interesting dynamic between the two characters, Heyman explains. DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton is “not the movie star that he had hoped to be, so he’s struggling — he’s a working actor, but he’s not a movie star.” On the flip side, Pitt’s Cliff is “at ease, and comfortable with who he is” as Dalton’s stuntman.

“These are two people who have a history together and the loyalty that they have for one another is really potent,” Heyman says. “It’s really a film about that friendship and about the power of that friendship as they go on their journeys together and separately.”

And then there’s Robbie as the beautiful Tate. “[Sharon Tate] has been mythologized in some way through the murders but we get to see her as a person and we get to see her delight and enthusiasm and her sweetness,” Heyman explains. “She represents an innocence and innocence lost in some way, and that innocence is very much — that sweetness, that goodness, that delight with the movies, with her, with her life — is something that we experience.”

The role was prepared very carefully by both Tarantino and Robbie, who had the blessing of Tate’s sister Debra Tate. McIntosh said Robbie “wanted to honor Sharon’s memory and she really drilled down to make sure that she got the best performance and was really embracing all that Sharon was.”

She added that Tarantino “absolutely embraced Debra Tate, and that was very important to him and to us that she’d be comfortable with what we’re doing because obviously anyone thinking that we’re making it a Manson movie, which we’re not, but he was very sensitive to that and remains sensitive to that.”

But there’s also change afoot in 1969, a year that marked a major transition in Hollywood as it was shifting out of the Golden Age and with the expansion of television, into new, uncharted territory. For Rick and Cliff, it means a time for personal transformation as well.

“They’re going to have to reinvent themselves, and the extent to which they are able to will determine their futures. What I love about this, it’s just so singularly told because it’s Quentin Tarantino turning his eye on his hometown. Nobody else could have made this film,” Heyman says.

Los Angeles has always been home turf for Tarantino, and majorly featured in his first three films; Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown. But since then, he has travelled to further regions in his subsequent tales and it has taken Tarantino until this, his ninth film, to explore the Los Angeles of his childhood (he was 6 years old when the movie takes place) and the industry that so inspired him that he’s known to be a walking film encyclopedia.

“This is Quentin’s most personal film,” Heyman explains. “This is his memories of growing up in Los Angeles and being a fan of Hollywood.”

To transport audiences back to the Los Angeles of his childhood, Tarantino and his team transformed many of the city’s iconic locations on Hollywood Boulevard to their 1969 versions. There’s the renowned Grauman’s Chinese Theaters, the Aquarius Theatre on Sunset Blvd, and Sherman Oaks’ classic Mexican restaurant hangout Casa Vega. And there’s L.A.’s airport LAX, which Heyman quipped that they didn’t have to do much with as its 1969 self still pretty much exists today (and the airport’s renovations were held off until the film was done shooting, McIntosh added).

There’s also the music — the producers didn’t want to give away the magic of Tarantino’s soundtrack, but McIntosh said that KHJ, the radio station that dominated Los Angeles in 1969, and Boss Radio’s Boss Angeles will feature prominently as the characters travel through the story.

All of this culminates not only in Tarantino’s most personal film, but also his most moving one, Heyman says. It has his trademark sharp humor and style, but it’s “really moving, because it’s such a personal story,” the producer explains, drawing comparisons to Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning movie Roma.

Tarantino is deep into finishing the film for its July 26 release, but there have been discussions about whether it’ll debut at Cannes next month, 25 years after Pulp Fiction won the Palme d’Or, putting Tarantino on the map.

“We’re going to see if it’s ready,” Heyman says. “I know films are being announced, we have a little bit more time to decide. If we can get it ready, we will go. We’d like to go, of course, but at the same time, the film’s got to be all that it can be.”

Consider our appetite sufficiently whetted for Tarantino’s romp through the Hollywood of his memories.

I'm SO pumped now!

Main bits:

- Manson & his Family play an important role
- It's about the loss of innocence caused by Manson and co
- "Three Classes of Hollywood" - Shining stars like Tate, has-beens like Rick and humble, "on the outskirts" types like Cliff
- Leo is struggling career-wise, wants more than anything to be an A-lister, unhappy where he is currently
- Brad is happy where he is and doesn't mind being in the background, humble
- Friendship is a key theme between the two protagonists
- We get to see Sharon Tate humanised rather than as this "myth" she's become because of her murder, she's sweet, enthusiastic and delightful. Sharon embodies the aforementioned "loss of innocence" vibe with this movie
- Industry changes by 1969 means personal transformation and reinvention for Brad and Leo to the point where it will determine their whole futures
- QT's most personal and "moving" movie
- Classic 60's LA radio stations KHJ and Boss Angeles feature prominently and alter with the changing years throughout the 60's - so a setting over the entire decade pretty much confirmed. We could be in for an AMAZING soundtrack here!
- Compared to Cuaron's "Roma" in terms of it being QT's love letter to his hometown of Los Angeles

[LaLaLand]

New shots:

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[LaLaLand]

In a new interview, Margot Robbie tells @deadline that she expects to be joining the cast in Cannes next month.

This comes just after producer David Heyman told EW: "If we can get it ready, we will go. We’d like to go, of course, but at the same time, the film’s got to be all that it can be.”

Cannes director Thierry Frémaux has seen a large part of OUATIH and is "really, really, really focused" on having it ready in time.

Regarding a possible premiere for Tarantino on the 25th anniversary of Pulp Fiction's Cannes debut, Frémaux has said he "can easily offer him that gift."

Cross EVERYTHING

[LaLaLand]

It’s official - OUATIH will premiere at Cannes and has a runtime of 2h45

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[Tony Montana]

That's great news.

[LaLaLand]

This actress Lorena Izzo who plays an Italian actress in the movie called Francesca Cappucci (based on Sofia Loren and the like) says this movie is like a cross between Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds. Her character has pretty much just arrived in America from Italy and is possibly romantically linked to Leo’s character.

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[LaLaLand]

The official statement from Cannes:

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino (2 hrs 45)

“We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be ready until late July, but Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes! Like for Inglourious Basterds, he’ll definitely be there – 25 years after the Palme d’or for Pulp Fiction – with a finished film screened in 35mm and his cast in tow (Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt). His film is a love letter to the Hollywood of his childhood, a rock music tour of 1969, and an ode to cinema as a whole.

In addition to thanking Quentin and his crew for spending days and nights in the editing room, the Festival wants to give special thanks to the teams at Sony Pictures, who made all of this possible.”