Quentin Tarantino has apparently closed the guide on Rick Dalton, the actor portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in As soon as Upon a Time…in Hollywood.
Tarantino made the announcement by way of The Video Archives podcast, which he hosts with Pulp Fiction cowriter Roger Avary. A sequence of tweets introduced the loss of life, and indicated that Tuesday’s podcast shall be “a memorial episode designed by Quentin that options a few of Rick’s finest roles.”
The Video Archives podcast is the place Tarantino and Avary “revisit traditional movies on VHS and uncover new favorites.” New episodes arrive each different Tuesday normally, however apparently the schedule has been speeded as much as accommodate the breaking information.
Tarantino has beforehand mapped out Dalton’s life. In 2021, he advised podcaster Jeff Goldsmith that he had a biography set.
“I wrote The Movies of Rick Dalton guide,” he mentioned. “It’s written as if Rick is actual. You recognize, they’ve The Movies of Charles Bronson and The Movies of Anthony Quinn, properly, it’s accomplished like that, with synopsis after which some important quotes from the time, and the guide goes by means of each one among Rick’s motion pictures that he did, resulting in the top of his profession in 1988, I imagine, and each one among his episodic tv exhibits.”
In that interview, Tarantino talked a few film known as The Fireman, starring Dalton and stuntman Cliff Sales space (Brad Pitt). That imaginary movie was set a decade after “Hollywood.”
“The lead character was within the Vietnam Warfare, he grew to become a cop,” mentioned Tarantino. “After which he begins seeing this complete group of unhealthy apple cops which are killing these guys and simply fully corrupt they usually find yourself killing his companion, performed by a really younger Sam Jackson. Then Rick targets these unhealthy cops, and he will get dressed up because the Fireman, and he has his flamethrower and he goes and he burns all of them down.”
