Timothy Olyphant is negotiating to co-star in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, the film Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed and is prepping for production in Los Angeles for Sony Pictures. I am not sure whether Olyphant will play a fictional or real character, but he will join Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Burt Reynolds, Tim Roth, Kurt Russell and Michael Madsen in a Pulp Fiction-like tapestry that covers a group of characters in LA during the summer of 1969, up to the moment where Charles Mansons followers murdered Sharon Tate and others in a shocking night of savagery.
Hope Sam Jackson has a spot too.
Quentin Tarantinos highly anticipated (and already controversial) next film will see him teaming up with collaborators new and old, from Margot Robbie and Burt Reynolds to Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio.
A source close to production has confirmed to IndieWire that one of his most important behind-the-camera collaborators is returning as well: cinematographer Robert Richardson. Richardson has shot each of Tarantinos last four movies, receiving Oscar nominations for Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and The Hateful Eight; hes won the award as many times, for JFK, The Aviator, and Hugo.
The Sony pic has brought aboard Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Clifton Collins Jr, Keith Jefferson and Nicholas Hammond in supporting roles for a lineup that already includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Burt Reynolds, Timothy Olyphant, Michael Madsen and Tim Roth.
As befits a Tarantino pic, the casting intrigues: Lewis will play the iconic actor Steve McQueen; Fanning is set as Squeaky Fromme, the Manson disciple who later tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford; Hammond will play director Sam Wanamaker; and Hirsch is Jay Sebring, the Hollywood hairstylist who was one of four victims in the Tate murders on Cielo Drive.
Perry is set to play Scotty Lancer, Collins is Ernesto The Mexican Vaquero, and Keith Jefferson is Land Pirate Keith. Its the third Tarantino film for Jefferson, who also appeared in The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained.
Pacino will play Marvin Shwarz Leonardo DiCaprios characters agent in the Sony film marking his first collaboration with Tarantino. Dating back to his first feature film, 1992s Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino has always cast movie stars he grew up watching, from Robert Forster in Jackie Brown to David Carradine in the Kill Bill films. Pacino fits that mold of A-list actors who rose to fame in the 1970s.