It was a mere coincide that landed Brad Pitt in Quentin's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

The director who is known for his classic nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, and aestheticization of violence - Quentin Jerome Tarantino is on his way to release his ninth film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Perhaps, the director strongly believes in Alfred Hitchcock who says, “To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.”

The new release will see Quentin and Brad Pitt’s second collaboration as the two were last seen in a WWII film Inglourious Basterds. It was a mere coincidence that brought the two together for the new film.

Tarantino was courting Pitt to play the role of a stuntman Cliff Booth and invited the actor over to his home for an initial meeting to discuss the character. It was there that a pretty amazing coincidence occurred that proved Pitt deeply understood the character without any guidance from the legendary filmmaker.

The comedy-drama was screened at the Cannes Film Festival this year and to the fans surprise, the film received 6-minute standing ovation. Now, it seems Hollywood has already loved the film and Tarantino is successful in sprinkling his pixie dust of excellence on his audience. We can theorize, the cast has done its part and Tarantino's choice of casting has hit a bull’s eye. 

At a recent interaction, Quentin explained, “Pitt showed up at his house to discuss Cliff Booth, followed by the two sitting down in his personal screening room to watch Tom Laughlin’s 1971 indie action drama “Billy Jack.” Pitt brought over his personal DVD copy of the movie, which also stars Laughlin in the title role of a Vietnam war veteran who is also a martial arts master. It turns out Pitt didn’t need to bring over his DVD because 'Billy Jack was exactly the movie Tarantino wanted to watch when starting to develop the character of Cliff Booth with Pitt."

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“I go, ‘Brad, I have a 35mm print of ‘Billy Jack,’ threaded up on the projector, waiting for you to get here,’”  said the director. “He couldn’t believe that we both were thinking of ‘Billy Jack’ - and more Tom Laughlin than Billy Jack… Billy Jack always has a little preamble… a folksy story that he tells before he fucks you up, and [Cliff] kinda has his own little folksy story," said Quentin.

Pitt bringing over his “Billy Jack” DVD when Tarantino already had his 35mm print of the 1971 movie loaded up in his film projector meant Pitt saw the character just as Tarantino did when the director was writing the script. Pitt stars as Cliff opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie in the film.