*The first look at Quentin Tarantino’s high-anticipated “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is finally here, and the acclaimed director says he’s taking audiences back to an era of hippie Hollywood that “no longer exists.”
Starring Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, Leonardo DiCaprio as former western TV star Rick Dalton and Brad Pitt as his stunt double, Cliff Booth, the teaser footage features a montage of Hollywoodland in the late ’60s.
“Actors are required to do a lot of dangerous stuff,” DiCaprio’s character explains in the trailer, per Variety. “Cliff, here, is meant to help carry the load.”
Pitt’s Cliff Booth co-signs, “What, carrying his load? Yeah, that’s about right.”
Watch the teaser via the clip above.
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Tarantino says the story was inspired by his own upbringing in LA; set in 1969, the year of the famed Charles Manson cult. Rick and Cliff live next door to Tate, the pregnant actress killed in the Manson murders.
“I’ve been working on this script for five years, as well as living in Los Angeles county most of my life, including in 1969, when I was seven years old,” Tarantino has said of the film. “I’m very excited to tell this story of an LA and a Hollywood that don’t exist anymore.”
Other cast members include the late Luke Perry, Al Pacino, Damian Lewis, Dakota Fanning, and Bruce Dern plays the real-life rancher who owned the property where Manson and his followers lived.
Cinematographer Robert Richardson previously explained the tone of the film to Collider:
“I think the tone of it is—it’s difficult to describe because it’s very fresh, but it oscillates between humorous, serious, spooky; it’s playful. It’s not easily describable, but it’s very Quentin. Very, very, very Quentin. Of course Al Pacino was in it and you’ve got remarkable monologues, but you also have remarkable small set pieces. It’s going to be a tremendously unique film.”
The film is expected premiere in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where Tarantino won the Palme d’Or 25 years ago for “Pulp Fiction.”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is slated for release July 26.
