Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton in ‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’ | Photo Credit: Prime Video
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has announced that actor Rick Dalton, the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio, will Once Upon a Time…in HollywoodHas crossed the age of 90 years.
Tarantino, who has just finished writing a book on the character named rick dalton moviesannounced this through video archivesA podcast he hosts with Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avery in which they revisit classic films on VHS and discover new favorites.
Tarantino’s passion for embodying the lives of his fictional characters is evident. Earlier, in a podcast episode with Jeff Goldsmith, Tarantino spoke rick dalton movies The book which he has now completed. “It’s written like Rick is real. You know, they have The Films of Charles Bronson and The Films of Anthony Quinn, well, it’s done like this, with synopses and then some important quotes from the time , and the book goes through Rick’s every single movie he did, leading up to the end of his career in 1988, I believe, and every single one of his episodic television shows.
As deadline According to reports, Tarantino also spoke in that podcast the firemanA fictional film set a decade later starring Dalton and stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,
“The main character was in the Vietnam War, he became a cop. And then he starts seeing this whole bunch of bad apple cops who are killing these guys and they’re totally corrupt and they end up killing their partner, who was played by a very young Sam Jackson. . Then Rick targets these bad cops, and he’s dressed as a fireman, and he has his flamethrower and he goes and he burns them all down,” deadline Quoted filmmaker.
once upon a time in hollywood, which was released worldwide in August 2019, featured a star-studded cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. It followed Rick Dalton, an aging, out-of-work actor, and his longtime stunt double, Cliff Booth. The two characters are neighbors of Tate (Margot Robbie).
The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards at the 2020 Oscars, with Pitt winning the Best Supporting Actor trophy and Best Production Design for Nancy Haigh and Barbara Laing.
After the film’s release, Tarantino wrote a follow-up book titled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel which followed the lives of both Rick and Dalton back and forth in time. Another book, Cinema Satta, which takes a deep dive into the films of the 1970s, was slated to be released in 2022.
upcoming memorial episodes video archives Tuesdays will pay tribute to some of Rick’s iconic roles.