Los Angeles has long been Quentin Tarantino’s playground. With his opening trio of iconic movies – Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown – the filmmaker weaved gripping, cine-literate crime tales across the ultimate movie city. And while more recently he’s dabbled in the Wild West and Nazi Germany, QT is back in LA with his ninth film, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. This one’s a chronicle of the final days of the Golden Age of the film industry, the period of Tarantino’s own youth, mixing fact and fiction with unmistakable film iconography.
The exclusive subscriber cover for Empire’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, designed by The Red Dress in a style that brings pulp fiction to mind, conjures the Walk Of Fame, the Hollywood sign, the classic cars, and the Cinerama Dome – all against a sunset, as the hip, freewheeling ‘60s come to an end.
Inside the magazine, Empire goes into the edit suite with Tarantino, talking to the filmmaker and his stars – Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie – about the coolest film of the summer. Plus, the issue comes with the latest edition of Pilot TV – take a look at the newsstand cover below.
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