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Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Era Film Scores Release Date

posted 6 years ago by Satan2016 (23553)
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http://variety.com/2017/film/news/quentin-tarantino-manson-film-1202628252/

The “Pulp Fiction” director’s latest will hit theaters on Aug. 9, 2019, Variety has learned. Opening on 50th anniversary of the day the Manson family committed the LaBianca murders and the day after actress Sharon Tate was killed,

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Set in Los Angeles in the summer of 1969, Tarantino’s upcoming movie, according to a source who read the script, focuses on a male TV actor who’s had one hit series and his looking for a way to get into the film business. His sidekick—who’s also his stunt double—is looking for the same thing. The horrific murder of Sharon Tate and four of her friends by Charles Manson’s cult of followers serves as a backdrop to the main story. Deadline says Tarantino wants Margot Robbie, currently enjoying accolades for her role as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya, for the role of Tate.

[–] r5d4d2 (680) 6 years ago

I am a big Tarantino fan. I love all of his films (except Maybe Death Proof; though the stunts are amazing).
However, I have serious reservations about this film.
QT's wheelhouse is violence and witty dialogue. Cops, robbers, assassins, bounty hunters, "cowboys" and soldiers.
A film about actors doesn't sound right.
And the Charles Manson connection turns me off immediately. That SOB and his gang of assholes should not be glorified in any way.
Maybe this will be an alternate history film like Inglorious Basterds and the protagonists will stop the murders.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 6 years ago

I share your apprehensions about this film. Although I am encouraged by the latest press releases that revealed the main story is not Tate and Manson, but about a fictional actor who crosses paths with some of the famous and infamous people from that crime.

With regards to Tarantino, I still find his films entertaining, but I no longer consider his work to be profound or iconic anymore. His last claim on greatness was, imo, Pulp Fiction, and everything he's made after Jackie Brown has been too cartoonish and self-indulgent for my taste.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

if its not about murders then why is it releasing during the anniversary of murders ? just asking

[–] Sandoz (2021) 6 years ago

I just repeated what I'd heard about the film (which isn't even in production, so who knows how accurate that spoiler was). From how it was described, I took it to mean that the killings will occur at some point in the film, but the main narrative is not going to focus specifically on Manson and Tate for every scene, but some other characters that Tarantino will make up.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 6 years ago

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