Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino tease ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
Oscar-winning actor says director’s new film will ‘transport us to a different era’ and script is ‘one of the most amazing screenplays he’s ever written’
Just a couple of months ago, it seemed as if Quentin Tarantino’s Hollywood future could be in question.
Yet at a major film industry event on Monday night, the head of Sony Pictures feted the director as Hollywood royalty, declaring the filmmaker’s new screenplay the best thing he had read in 30 years.
Sony was the first studio to present this week at CinemaCon, the annual gathering of cinema owners where exhibitors are treated to sneak previews of each company’s forthcoming offerings.
After a star-studded display that included appearances by Matthew McConaughey (White Man Rick), Will Ferrell (Holmes & Watson) and Benicio del Toro (Sicario: Day of the Soldado), Tom Rothman, chairman of the studio’s motion picture group, told the crowd gathered in the Caesar’s Palace Colosseum that he had one more surprise in store.
Then he called Tarantino and Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio to the stage, inciting audible gasps from the audience.
Not only is DiCaprio one of the bigger stars to turn up at the Sin City convention in recent years, but the film he’s making with Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – hasn’t even started filming yet.
But there was also, of course, the fact that Tarantino has weathered his share of controversy in the past few months.
In January, Rose McGowan alleged in her memoir that the director frequently told her he “used” her film, Jawbreaker as masturbatory material.