Leonardo DiCaprio to Star in Quentin Tarantino’s
Manson Movie
After being courted for several months, Leonardo
DiCaprio will star in Quentin Tarantino’s
untitled Charles Manson movie, sources confirmed
to Variety.
DiCaprio will play an aging, out-of-work actor
in the film.
Margot Robbie, meanwhile, is being eyed for
the role of Sharon Tate.
This will mark DiCaprio’s first film since
winning the Oscar in 2016 for his performance
in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “The Revenant.”
DiCaprio and Tarantino last collaborated on
2012’s “Django Unchained.”
He is repped by LBI Entertainment.
As previously reported, Tom Cruise is also
being pursued to star in the director’s
ninth feature.
Sources now tell Variety that Tarantino is
interested in casting Al Pacino in the film
as well.
Sony is handling distribution.
The movie will hit theaters on Aug. 9, 2019,
Variety has learned.
Opening on the 50th anniversary of the day
that the Manson family committed the LaBianca
murders and the day after Tate was killed,
the film will head off against “Artemis
Fowl,” Disney’s adaptation of the popular
sci-fi and fantasy series.
Sony beat out several bidders, including Warner
Bros. and Paramount, for rights to the film.
The movie — shrouded in secrecy — is set
in 1969 and is believed to involve Charles
Manson and the Manson family murders.
The director has told media outlets that it’s
not a biopic, but is an ensemble film set
during the tumultuous time period.
It’s the first pic that Tarantino is releasing
without the Weinstein Company.
A group of investors led by Maria Contreras-Sweet
is in a strong position to buy the Weinstein
Company following sexual misconduct allegations
against its disgraced founder Harvey Weinstein.
Deadline Hollywood first reported the news.
Leonardo DiCaprio Is Joining Quentin Tarantino’s
Manson Movie
Leonardo DiCaprio is hitching a ride to the
past with Quentin Tarantino.
According to Variety, the actor is in talks
to star in the director’s upcoming Charles
Manson project.
It’ll be a reunion for the duo, who last
worked together on the 2012 Western Django
Unchained.
But before you get your hopes up, know this:
DiCaprio shan’t be taking on the role of
wild-eyed Manson himself.
He’s instead rumored to play the role of
an aging, out-of-work actor.
Plot twist!
Thus far, the rest of the cast is still up
in the air, though Margot Robbie has long
been rumored to play the role of Sharon Tate,
the actress who was murdered by members of
Manson’s cult.
Tom Cruise is also reportedly in talks to
join the cast in a mysterious, not-yet-public
role.
Tarantino is said to be courting Al Pacino
as well.
The film, Tarantino’s ninth feature, has
already been set for an August 9, 2019, release
date, timed to the 50th anniversary of the
Manson murders.
As Tarantino has previously revealed, the
film is less straightforward Manson biopic
than it is a broad story about California
in 1969, with the Manson murders serving as
a backdrop for the overall story.
DiCaprio’s role will likely be vital to
the film, important and interesting enough
to, say, mount an awards-season campaign around.
Because if there’s one thing DiCaprio loves,
it’s an Oscar campaign—perhaps especially
now that he can relax and luxuriate in the
competition, since he’s finally got a statuette
to call his own.
Though we might not be in for the same level
of crazy story we got during his press circuit
for The Revenant—he ate raw bison liver!
He slept in an animal carcass!
He was tortured by Tom Hardy!—the atmosphere
of a Tarantino film should make for some pretty
juicy behind-the-scenes stories.
Remember the time on Django where DiCaprio
actually cut his hand during a scene and just
kept going?
The moment probably still haunts Kerry Washington,
though she has long been a cosmically good
sport about DiCaprio going rogue and smearing
his actual blood on her actual face.
Or maybe, considering he doesn’t actually
get to play the villain in this particular
movie, DiCaprio should be the one on the lookout
for method acting-induced madness this time
around.
Leonardo DiCaprio Joins Quentin Tarantino's
Manson Murder Film (But Not as Charles Manson)
Quentin Tarantino has made his first official
casting choice for his upcoming film about
the Manson family murders, with Leonardo DiCaprio
in a starring role.
After Tarantino reportedly discussed parts
with both Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, DiCaprio
is the first to reportedly sign on to the
project—but not in the role you might think.
In the upcoming Manson project—which is
listed on IMDb as Untitled Quentin Tarantino/1969
Project—DiCaprio, who has previously worked
with Tarantino in Django Unchained back in
2012, will apparently play an actor who appears
in a movie within the movie.
Since winning an Oscar for Best Actor in 2016,
DiCaprio has not appeared in any films, so
his meta-movie role in Tarantino's fictionalization
of the Manson family murders could be the
one that nabs him another Oscar nomination
after the film premieres in 2019, even if
he won't be playing Charles Manson.
The Manson movie will be distributed by Sony
Pictures (they've secured all global rights
to the film).
The film is scheduled to be released exactly
50 years after the murder of actress Sharon
Tate, but according to Deadline, the project
is reportedly not a Charles Manson or Tate
biopic.
Rather than focusing explicitly and solely
on Manson, it will center around events in
Los Angeles that occurred the summer of 1969,
which is also when the Manson murders took
place.
Both Margot Robbie and Jennifer Lawrence have
allegedly been approached by Tarantino to
play Tate, but so far the only actor to have
been cast is DiCaprio.
Of course, the conversation surrounding the
film has been notoriously hush-hush, and it
has yet to be reported who will play Charles
Manson, but the Untitled Quentin Tarantino/1969
Project will be Tarantino's ninth film endeavor
(he plans to retire after making 10 films,
remember), and the controversial filmmaker
is also allegedly working on a final installment
of the Kill Bill series as well as conceptualizing
a new Star Trek film with J.J. Abrams.
