The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Jay Glennie

The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Jay Glennie, Quentin Tarantino

Insight Editions · Print & ebook · October 28, 2025

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Who it’s for
Jay Glennie traces the film’s production through documents, images, and interviews with cast and crew.
Genres
Film Direction & Production, Director Studies, Lives in Entertainment
Published
Insight Editions, October 28, 2025

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"A lush letter to '60s-era Hollywood." — Forbes "Revealing... brimming with costumes, props and set photos, new interviews with Tarantino and the cast... all woven together with 170,000 words of accompanying text by Jay Glennie, who has gained an international reputation as the Cecil B. DeMille of 'making of' books." — The Hollywood Reporter Legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino personally introduces the definitive and official examination of his entire oeuvre with the Quentin Tarantino Library written by Jay Glennie.

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In the first book in the series, The Making of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, writer Jay Glennie pulls back the curtain on the visionary writer/director/producer’s ninth film, with unprecedented access to the filmmaker, cast, and crew. This epic tome is a stunning and faithful deep dive into the mind of a masterful auteur and a must-have book for all film lovers and Quentin Tarantino fans. For the first time ever Academy Award winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has granted respected journalist and author Jay Glennie unique access revealing the never-before-told behind-the-scenes making of one of the most iconic films of all time, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. Quentin Tarantino personally introduces the volume, as well as providing hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs, along with production memos, concept art, and costume and production design sketches. There are also exclusive reproductions of letters, studio documents and film ephemera. The result is an account of the monumental effort undertaken to produce Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood and is the official record of how it was achieved, from inception to the world premiere and on to ten Academy Award nominations, resulting in two Oscars. The book includes new and exclusive interviews undertaken by Jay Glennie with key cast and crew members, including Oscar winning actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, Oscar nominee Margot Robbie, and the brilliant supporting cast including Oscar winner Mikey Madison, Margaret Qualley, Oscar nominee Austin Butler, Lena Dunham, Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch, Damian Lewis, Maya Hawke, and Sydney Sweeney.

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Jay Glennie traces the film’s production through documents, images, and interviews with cast and crew.

Come here for

  • Behind-the-scenes photographs, production memos, and concept art
  • Costume and production design sketches, letters, and studio documents

Expect

  • Tarantino’s introduction and behind-the-scenes photographs
  • An account spanning the film’s inception to its world premiere

Where it sits

Film Direction & Production64%
Director Studies47%
Lives in Entertainment23%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Film & Cinema
  • Film Direction & Production
  • Director Studies
Authors
Jay Glennie, Quentin Tarantino
Publisher
Insight Editions
Published
October 28, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Film & Cinema