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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Quentin Tarantino Passed on Directing the Upcoming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Sequel · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. It was a bit unexpected when it
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  Speaker 1: was announced this spring that Brad Pitt would reprise his
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  Speaker 1: role of charming stuntman Cliff Booth for a sequel to
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  Speaker 1: Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But the
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  Speaker 1: bigger surprise was that Quentin himself won't be directing this script.
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  Speaker 1: He's written instead Fight Club and seven filmmaker David Fincher
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  Speaker 1: will be behind the camera, and Tarantino just explained why
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  Speaker 1: he passed on it. He tells the Church of Tarantino
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  Speaker 1: podcast his desire to retire after his next movie, his
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  Speaker 1: tenth played a big part, saying I love the script,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd be walking the same ground I've already walked
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  Speaker 1: this last film. I can't know what I'm doing again,
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  Speaker 1: and he later expressed his excitement over David Fincher making
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  Speaker 1: it instead, adding I think David and I are the
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  Speaker 1: two best directors. So the idea that David Fincher actually
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  Speaker 1: wants to adapt my work to me shows a level
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  Speaker 1: of seriousness towards my work that I think needed to
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  Speaker 1: be taken into account. Fincher's sequel to Once Upon a
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  Speaker 1: Time in Hollywood is expected next year, that's direct from Hollywood,