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Is the David Fincher Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Offshoot the Strangest Quentin Tarantino Project?

Is the David Fincher Once Upon a Time in Hollywood offshoot, starring Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, the strangest Quentin Tarantino project?

Fennessey compared it to the relationship between two Raymond Chandler adaptations: 1946’s The Big Sleep and 1975’s Farewell, My Lovely, both of which feature Phillip Marlowe — though he is played by Humphrey Bogart in the first and Robert Mitchum in the second. Tarantino admires Fincher — whose films include the Pitt-led Fight Club and the masterful Zodiac, among others — but does not exactly see him as competition, as he told Charlie Rose in 2009 interview to promote his then-brand-new Inglorious Basterds. Either way, Tarantino is now free to end his film career with a fresh project, potentially superior to the one that might have been, while secure in the knowledge that one of the best filmmakers of his generation is looking out for Cliff Booth.

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