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Tarantino flips script in ‘Once Upon a Time’ book

By Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times
Published: July 4, 2021, 5:40am

Quentin Tarantino has said he’s got one movie left in him before he retires. He also had the bandwidth for a novel based on his most recent film, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”

The filmmaker’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novel, which came out Tuesday, is a No. 1 bestseller already — in the microniche known as Amazon’s Movie Tie-In Fiction Bestsellers, Kindle Edition.

“The novel is loose-jointed,” a New York Times review said. “If it were written better, it’d be written worse. It’s a mass-market paperback that reeks of mass-market paperbacks.”

It was Tarantino’s idea to publish the novel as a paperback. “Imagine me going to a publisher and saying, ‘Look, I know the money is in hardbacks, but can we come out with a paperback first?’” he said.

The book, which messes with the timeline of the movie and includes events that happen after its final frames, contains some new backstory revelations.

“As usual, the novel shows Tarantino as a black belt in provocation,” the Guardian said in its book review. The critic called the paperback “a reminder that Tarantino is, in fact, a really good writer, and it should not be so surprising that his brilliance as a screenwriter should be transferable into fiction, in the firework displays of dialogue but also the building blocks of narrative. ”

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