Quentin Tarantino, known for his graphic and violent films, is reportedly tackling a real-life crime for his next project: a film about the Manson family murders.
The Hollywood Reporter said on Tuesday that the project is still in its early stages. Mr. Tarantino is almost finished writing the script, according to the report, and actors including Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence have been approached.
Charles Manson and his disciples have inspired a number of recent films and TV series, although Mr. Tarantino’s would be the highest profile yet.
Mr. Manson orchestrated killings in Southern California in 1969, with a group of men and women he called “the Family.” One of their victims was the actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of the director Roman Polanski, who will reportedly be a focus of Mr. Tarantino’s film.
The dark material is nothing new for Mr. Tarantino, a writer and director of “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django Unchained,” among others. His most recent film was “The Hateful Eight” (2015).
Plans call for shooting to begin next year, The Hollywood Reporter said.
A representative for William Morris Endeavor, an agency reportedly involved in marketing the film to studios, did not immediately respond to request for comment.
He needs to make this movie as real as possible, and absolutely make you sit in your chair white knuckled make you cringe with your arm hair standing up, horrifying.
Like say....make you wanna hold your kids at night, frightening. It needs to be sick, demented, gory, dark etc. [Reply]
Originally Posted by CoMoChief:
He needs to make this movie as real as possible, and absolutely make you sit in your chair white knuckled make you cringe with your arm hair standing up, horrifying.
Like say....make you wanna hold your kids at night, frightening. It needs to be sick, demented, gory, dark etc.
These type of movies get me deeper through a wider range of emotions than most monster ghost flicks se to inventive scripts [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pestilence:
How's he going to fit the N word into this one?
I'm going to be charitable and assume you were focused on the humor of being snarky, and just ignore the possibility that you don't know a GAT DAMN thing about Manson. :-)
Actually, if people are interested in a decent way to learn a lot about the matter without expending a lot of effort, the podcast 'you must remember this' has an extended [like 12-15 hour] oral history of The Family and it's effect on later 60s LA. You can put it on to listen in the background.
You can find it on Itunes, or go right to the podcast source here;
