![]() ![]() During the five or six years I was writing the script, I kept writing out things that I knew would never be in the movie, just to make me learn about the characters. I’m not talking about just a couple of scenes that got cut out of the theatrical release on the editing-room floor. But even more than that, I had all this material. But then I thought, “The last thing I did was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and people seemed to like it.” That seemed like a really good prospect. I thought it was just ready to go in the bookstore under the “mystery crimes” section. I should do one of these on my work.” My initial instinct was to turn Reservoir Dogs into a novelization because of the crime aspect. This is really cool.” And then I thought, “You know, I own my stuff. I started thinking, “What a fun genre this is. They were the first adult books I ever read, and I started re-reading the ones that I really liked and then reading some of the ones that I thought that I’d never got around to reading. ![]() I like novelizations, and two years ago I started digging out my old ones. QUENTIN TARANTINO: That’s a good question, I like the way you put it. ![]() Here, Tarantino discusses why he put the same painstaking detail in the book as he did the movie, and where he goes from here. If you are a fan of the movie, you’ll find it hard to put down a novel that first was published in paperback. The book becomes in a way its own singular Tarantino creation: Using his film as a springboard, Tarantino heads into many unexpected directions while satisfyingly expanding and fleshing out the mythology of the world and the characters populated by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and others. After steeping himself for a half-decade in the lore of ’60s films, stuntmen, Western TV series and the Manson family to create Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino harkened back to his love for movie novelizations and wrote one for his own movie, after the fact. Now, he has done a similar thing that I bet will not be copied by other filmmakers. EXCLUSIVE: Quentin Tarantino long has taken his encyclopedic cinematic influences, including genres and actors from the past, and blended them through his filter to create wildly inventive films that have influenced many up-and-coming filmmakers. ![]()
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