Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Tarantino's new DiCaprio and Pitt film has 'the best screenplay I've read in 30+ years,' claims studio chief

It's 'probably the closest to Pulp Fiction that I've ever done,' the director said

Anticipation couldn't really be higher for Quentin Tarantino's (possibly penultimate) new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which only gets more exciting the more we learn about it.

Set against the counterculture explosion in LA in 1969, the film will star Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt (acting together for the first time), reportedly as a TV cowboy actor and his long-serving stunt double respectively.

At a Sony panel at CinemaCon this week, Tarantino described them as "the most exciting star dynamic duo since Robert Redford and Paul Newman", and the bold claims didn't stop there.

DiCaprio said that having read the script he believes it is one of the director's best, while Sony chairman Tom Rothman declared it the best screenplay he had read in 30+ years in the business.

Fans of old school Tarantino also have cause for celebration, with the filmmaker teasing that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is "probably the closest [film] to Pulp Fiction that I've ever done".

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Not a single frame of footage has been shot yet, but Tarantino will be taking LA back to the 60s “block by block” this summer. Margot Robbie is also rumoured to be on the cast, while the plot is expected to in some way tie in the Manson murders, with DiCaprio and Pitt's characters living next door to Sharon Tate.

Tate was killed by members of Manson's cult on 9 August, 1969, exactly 50 years prior to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's release date.

(via Deadline / AP)

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