First published 2025
Jay Glennie takes readers inside the production of Quentin Tarantino's ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino himself introduces this official account and granted Glennie unprecedented access to cast and crew. The book reveals how the filmmaker brought 1960s Hollywood to life through interviews with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie, along with the supporting cast including Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, and Maya Hawke. Glennie documents the entire journey from initial concept to world premiere, showing the monumental effort required to create the film. The volume includes hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs, production memos, concept art, costume sketches, and reproductions of studio documents. Forbes called the film a lush letter to sixties-era Hollywood, and this companion captures that vision through 170,000 words of accompanying text. The book chronicles how the production earned ten Academy Award nominations and won two Oscars, providing film lovers with the complete story of how Tarantino crafted one of his most ambitious projects.
Genres: art, 20th-century, non-fiction, biography-memoir, 21st-century, film
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: documentary, insider-account, making-of
Setting: Hollywood
Period: 1960s
488 pages · Kindle Edition · Insight Editions