January 2019: Vanity Fair has New Photos from the Making of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

These photos -- as 2019 begins with the film due for summer 2019 release -- generate a certain excitement building, building building as the movie gets closer, closer, closer.

Of course, a trailer with folks talking(QT style) and the visual style (of Robert Richardson) will be the real starter's gun. But this feels good.

To a QT fan. Which I am. Which not everybody is, but...oh well.

Notes:

The shot with Brad shaking Pacino's hand while Leo watches. Leo's the one who DOESN'T look like a movie star to me -- but I've long been proven wrong, wrong, wrong about that Oscar winning superstar. I'm just sayin', though: Pitt and Pacino look more like stars than Leo.

Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate...doesn't look pregnant. Wasn't Sharon Tate pretty far along when she was killed? Perhaps this element is being changed.

Leo leaping with the shotgun. Looks pretty modern(Leo is playing a TV Western star). Could this movie actually posit our heroes STOPPING Manson?(Ala the Inglorious Basterds killing Hitler?) Enquiring minds want to know. (UPDATE: enquiring names have found out. That's meant to be a shot from Leo's guest appearance on the TV show "The FBI.")

Leo dancing on Hullabaloo! Exquisite. TV stars were made to do that song and dance show, in those days. I think the TV show "Hullabaloo" was well off the air by '69 when this movie is set. Probably a flashback to Leo's better days as a TV star.(The other show was "Shindig!" And locally in LA, "Where the Action Is.")

The shot of Margot Robbie walking across the street with Richardson's camera following: that looks a lot to me like Westwood Village, near UCLA. She's hanging there in 1969 or so(earlier? No pregnancy visible.) In the 70's, Westwood Village is where the big movie theaters for studio premieres stood.