What Happens After Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
4. A Movie Based On The Manson Assault Is A Huge Hit
While few filmmakers have dared to adapt the Tate murders into a movie, the irony of the Tarantino version is that its alt-history take likely would've been made into a film.
Though a movie focused on the murder of Tate and her friends screams exploitation, a stranger-than-fiction tale of a fading film star and his stuntman pal defending their home from the crazed Manson Family has box office dynamite written all over it.
If probably not an Oscar-winning masterpiece, it's easy to imagine it being a hit genre film with someone like Walter Hill (The Warriors), Don Siegel (Dirty Harry), or William Friedkin (The Exorcist) tackling the material.
As for who would play the key personnel? How could anyone but Brad Pitt's doppelganger Robert Redford play Cliff?
And hell, why not cast Paul Newman as Rick, giving audiences the third Redford-Newman collaboration they sadly never got in our own reality.
There's just no way a story this bizarre and inherently cinematic doesn't make mad bank at the box office.