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.