Quentin Tarantino Inks ‘Making of’ Book Deal Series for All of His Films, Starting with ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’

Quentin Tarantino will be revisiting his filmography thanks to a coffee table book deal with Insight Editions. Deadline reported that the auteur will collaborate with journalist and author Jay Glennie for at least three “Making Of” oral histories abo ut his features, starting with his most recent film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

Titled â€œThe Making of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,'” the book will be released November 11 by Insight Editions, which took over an initial deal made with Little Brown for all nine of Tarantino’s films to be included in the “Making Of” series. The deal was for 10 features in total, however Tarantino has yet to make his tenth and allegedly final film.

After “The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,'” Insight Editions will release “The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Basterds'” and “The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchanged,'” in 2026 and 2027, respectively. Tarantino will write introductions for each book, with casts providing commentary.

The three-book deal with Insight Editions was inked by Story Factory’s Shane Salerno, Tarantino’s longtime representatives Mike Simpson at WME and attorney Carlos Goodman, and Insight CEO Raoul Goff and publisher Vanessa Lopez.

Tarantino previously expanded the lore of Brad Pitt’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Cliff Booth in a novel based on the film. That served in part as a starting point for the quasi-sequel spinoff feature to be directed by David Fincher for Netflix. Tarantino wrote the script, with Pitt reprising his Oscar-winning role from the 2019 film. Pitt has frequent collaborated with Fincher, who directed him in “Se7en,” “Fight Club,” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” The character of Cliff Booth was reportedly going to be included in Tarantino’s shelved “The Movie Critic,† which was originally planned to be his 10th and final film as a director.

Tarantino said during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival that 2019, the year he released “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” was the “last fucking year of movies” as it was the final stretch before the 2020 pandemic. “Well, what the fuck is a movie now? What â€" something that plays in theaters for a token release for four fucking weeks?” Tarantino said. “All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television. I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last fucking year of movies. That was a shit deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it’s gotten drastically worse? And it’s a show-pony exercise. Now the theatrical release, you know, and then like yeah, in two weeks, you can watch it on this [streamer] and that one. OK. Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.”

He added of his recent projects, “If you’re wondering what I’m doing right now, I’m writing a play, and it’s going to be probably the next thing I end up doing. If it’s a fiasco I probably won’t turn it into a movie. But if it’s a smash hit? It might be my last movie. That’s a big fucking deal pulling [a play] off, and I don’t know if I can. So here we go. That’s a challenge, a genuine challenge.”