Quentin Tarantino to Write ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Novel, Sets Two-Book HarperCollins Deal

Director Quentin Tarantino will turn his Oscar-nominated film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” into a novel under a new book deal he signed with publisher HarperCollins, the company announced on Tuesday.Tarantino’s deal with Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, is for two books.

The “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novelization will mark Tarantino’s first work of fiction in print, and the book is set to be published in the summer of 2021.The book will not be a straight re-telling of the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” story with TV actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth.

The novel will “amplify” Tarantino’s original story and give a “fresh, playful and shocking departure from the film,” according to a HarperCollins press release.

It will follow Dalton and Booth’s lives both forward and backward in time.Inspired by the classic movie novelizations that inspired Tarantino,

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