Quentin Tarantino: From the screen to the page

Hollywood, it seems, was built on movies that were built on books. We all know that Don Corleone was a literary legend first, as was Mary Poppins, and that shark in "Jaws." Jules (Samuel L. Jackson): Naw, I don't eat pork.Vincent (John Travolta): Are you Jewish?Jules: I ain't Jewish man, I just don't dig on swine.Vincent: Why not?Jules: They're filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.Vincent: Sausages taste good. Pork chops taste good.Jules: A sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie. I'll never know 'cause even if it did, I wouldn't eat the filthy motherf*****.From "Pulp Fiction" "I don't know who you are, but you touched me today."George Spahn (Bruce Dern), "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

So, it might surprise you that the book that inspired Quentin Tarantino's epic "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was actually written after the film. The movie, you recall, is about an aging actor and his stunt double looking for relevance in late-1960s Hollywood. The new book is actually a novelization, a much more detailed version of the script, so if for instance you want to see even more of Brad Pitt's character, the book will tell you everything that Tarantino couldn't fit in the film.