New Trailer - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Sony Entertainment released a new official trailer today for Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated latest creation Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The new movie will be the ninth film to be written and directed by Tarantino and with an all-star cast set in late 60’s to early 70’s Los Angeles, it’s difficult to imagine it not being immediately hailed as an instant classic upon its release.

The plot follows a B-movie actor named Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth (portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt respectively) on their journey through the ups and downs of Hollywood life, woven with several other storylines which will be, according to Tarantino himself, “a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age.”

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In an interview with Esquire released just hours after the trailer, the publication’s executive director Michael Hainey spoke with Tarantino, Pitt and DiCaprio at length about all aspects of the film’s production.

“It’s not historical fact per se. It’s a Hollywood of Reality – but a Hollywood of the mind at the same time.”

-      Quentin Tarantino

In the interview, Brad Pitt described the auspicious director as “the last purveyor of cool.” and added “if you land in one of his films, you know you’re in great hands.” DiCaprio continued, saying “[Tarantino's] sets are so magnetic. You don’t walk onto sets like this anymore, where everyone has respect for the process.”

The director believes that this film is the closest thing he’s done to 1994’s Pulp Fiction in terms of structure with several stories woven within each other, connecting later in the movie.

“Think multiple characters (some real, some imagined) and story lines that are seemingly unrelated... until they are not. Until they intersect and intertwine in surprising ways.”

-      Quentin Tarantino

The fascinating interview, which you can read here, is coupled with a photoshoot in which the stars and their director pose in a number of situations with a number of props quintessential to the era of the film, including a rather stunning orange Cadillac.

The movie will include a number of real-life historical figures including Sharon Tate, Bruce Lee, River Phoenix, Steve McQueen and infamous proxy serial killer Charles Manson. The exuberant cast includes Margot Robbie, Dakota Fanning, Tim Roth, Timothy Olyphant, Al Pacino, Kurt Russell, Luke Perry, Michael Madsen and even Karate Kid and Cobra Kai actor Martin Kove among many other famous and at the very least, highly recognisable faces.

The movie, carrying a budget of approximately $100m, is set to be released on August 14^th with an 18 age rating and a runtime of just over two-and-a-half hours.