Quentin Tarantino is ready to go back to his roots.
As moviegoers patiently wait for the director's highly anticipated Once Upon a Time In Hollywood to hit the theaters, Leonardo DiCaprio did fans a favor on Monday by sharing the film's official poster and release date on Twitter.
Expected to hit theaters in July, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood brings all of Tarantino's old favorites back to the big screen as the ultimate dream team: DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Al Pacino travel back to Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood and the Charles Manson murders. Despite the movie's release date being around the 50th anniversary of the bloodshed, Tarantino has told Variety that the film will not focus specifically on the evil true-crime story. "It takes place at the height of the counterculture explosion," he told the magazine earlier in 2018.
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The late Luke Perry, Dakota Fanning, Damian Lewis, Emile Hirsch and Damon Herriman were also revealed to be part of the film's star-studded cast, with Herriman playing cult-leader Charles Manson.
In classic Tarantino fashion, the story "oscillates between humorous, serious and spooky," says cinematographer Robert Richardson, as Pitt and DiCaprio play longtime friends and business partners who are struggling to find fame and success as they did in their early careers. Luckily for the dynamic duo, DiCaprio's character — the washed up actor Rick Dalton — happens to be neighbors with the beautiful, fast-rising star Sharon Tate, played by Robbie.
While the rest of the plot remains a mystery, Collider reports that Tarantino has revealed one more thing about the movie: in terms of plotting and style, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood will carry a very similar vibe to the director's iconic 90s hit Pulp Fiction. Is it July yet?!
