Quentin Tarantino Adds Brad Pitt to His Manson Family Movie

Tarantino's film will pair Pitt with Leonardo DiCaprio.

JAPAN - NOVEMBER 04:  "Inglourious Basterds" Photocall In Tokyo, Japan On November 04, 2009 - American actor Brad Pitt, right, chats with film director Quentin Tarantino during a photo session at a hotel - They came to Japan to promote their latest movie " Inglourious Basters " .  (Photo by Katsumi KASAHARA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
JAPAN - NOVEMBER 04: "Inglourious Basterds" Photocall In Tokyo, Japan On November 04, 2009 - American actor Brad Pitt, right, chats with film director Quentin Tarantino during a photo session at a hotel - They came to Japan to promote their latest movie " Inglourious Basters " . (Photo by Katsumi KASAHARA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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Brad Pitt has joined the cast of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino’s coming movie about the Manson Family murders. According to Variety, Pitt’s character Cliff Booth will be the stunt double for Leonardo DiCaprio’s washed up western star, Rick Dalton. DiCaprio’s character will be the next-door neighbor of Sharon Tate in Tarantino’s fictionalized version of Cielo Drive. “Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore,” Tarantino said of Pitt and DiCaprio’s characters. Tarantino plans to release “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” on August 9, 2019, which will be the 50th anniversary of the Manson Family’s LaBianca murders.

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