Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio Top Picks for Quentin Tarantino's Next Movie on Charles Manson
Rumors have been rife for some time regarding Quentin Tarantino's ninth movie. Unconfirmed reports state the writer and director plans to do a film about convicted mass murderer Charles Manson.
New details are emerging that Tarantino wants Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in the cast of what has been tentatively referred to as #9. Major studios, with the exception of Disney, are supposed to be getting the screenplay to #9 this week so it can review and bid on the film's production and distribution.
The Weinstein Company was originally attached to Tarantino's new film. The director, however, severed ties with the studio following Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment scandal.
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Pitt has been Tarantino's choice for the Manson movie from the beginning. Both worked together in 2009's "Inglorious Basterds."
Tarantino, however, also wants to reteam with DiCaprio, whom he directed in 2012's "Django Unchained." He's also eyeing roles for Jennifer Lawrence, Margot Robbie and Samuel Jackson.
Casting details remain unconfirmed pending arrangements with a studio. Filming for #9 won't begin until the middle of 2018 or early 2019.
The Manson movie, which is said to have a similar vibe as "Pulp Fiction," will take place in the late '60s. Tarantino will take a creative license in the story in the same way that "Inglourious Basterds" was cited as a film about Adolf Hitler.
Manson was convicted to life imprisonment in 1971 for the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six other people at her home in Los Angeles four years prior. Tate was eight months pregnant when she Mason killed her. He also led a cult that unleashed various crimes in California and was in and out of prison before pleading guilty to his most controversial crime.
Originally, Manson was bound for execution but the state of California removed the death penalty in 1972. He remains in prison today at 82-years-old.
