( APPLAUSE ).
>> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY! WELCOME BACK!
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MY GUEST TONIGHT IS AN ACADEMY
AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER WHOSE MOVIES INCLUDE "PULP FICTION,"
"KILL BILL," AND "ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD."
HE HAS NOW WRITTEN HIS FIRST NOVEL.
PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO "THE LATE SHOW," QUENTIN TARANTINO!
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>> THE STANDING "O" FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T LOOKING.
>> Stephen: QUENTIN TARANTINO GETS THE STANDING "O."
SIR, NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
A LOT HAS HAPPENED IN YOUR LIFE SINCE I LAST SAW YOU.
YOU GOT MARRIED, YOU HAD A KID.
YOU HAVE ALSO WRITTEN YOUR FIRST NOVEL.
THIS IS-- >> BAM!
>> Stephen: IT IS A NOVELIZATION OF YOUR MOVIE "ONCE
UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD."
NOW, FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT A NOVELIVATION IS-- I
READ A BUNCH OF THEM WHEN I WAS A KID.
A BIG ALLEN KING FOSTER FAN, "STAR WARS" AND THE "ALIEN"
SERIES.
WHAT ARE THEY?
AND HOW DID YOU GET INTO THEM?
>> IT'S FUNNY, BECAUSE NOVELIZATIONS WERE THE FIRST
ADULT NOVELS THAT I BOUGHT MYSELF WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY.
>> Stephen: SURE.
>> BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU GO INTO THE THE DRUGSTORE OR THE
7-ELEVEN, OR WHATEVER IT WAS, AND THERE WAS THE COMIC BOOK
SPINNER RACK, AND THAT'S WHERE I ALWAYS WENT TO.
BUT NEXT TO IT WAS THE PAPER BACK SPINNER RACK.
AND AT SOME POINT, THE PAPERBACK SPINNER RACK DREW ME AWAY FROM
THE COMIC BOOK SPINNER RACK.
AND THE FIRST NOVELIZATION I BOUGHT WAS A NOVELIZATION FOR
THE BURT REYNOLDS MOVIE "W.W.
AND THE DIXIE DANCE KINGS."
>> Stephen: WOW.
>> WHICH WAS WRITTEN BY ITS SCREENWRITER, THOMAS RICKMAN.
>> Stephen: THERE YOU GO.
>> WHO LATER WON AN OSCAR FOR WRITING THE SCREENPLAY FOR "COAL
MINER'S DAUGHTER."
I READ THAT NOVELIZATION, AND I LOVED IT.
I THOUGHT IT WAS FANTASTIC.
AND THAT GOT-- SET ME ON A WHOLE THING OF READING NOVELIZATIONS.
NOW, IT WAS INTERESTING, THOUGH, I DIDN'T SEE "W.W. AND THE DIXIE
DANCE KINGS" WHEN IT CAME OUT.
TWO YEARS LATER-- MOVIES HUNG AROUND AT LEAST AS THE LOWER
HALF OF DOUBLE FEATURES FOR A LONG TIME BACK THEN.
I LOVED THIS BOOK AND HAD READ IT THREE TIMES ALREADY.
IT WAS PLAYING AT A THEATER IN THE LOWER HALF OF A DOUBLE
FEATURE SO I WENT AND SAW IT.
AND I DIDN'T LIKE IT ANYWHERE NEAR AS MUCH AS I LIKED THE
NOVELIZATION.
THEN WHEN THOMAS RICKMAN WON THE OSCAR FOR "COAL MINER'S
DAUGHTER," THEY DID AN INTERVIEW WITH HIM AND ASKED HIM HOW HE
GOT STARTED.
HE SAID, "THE FIRST SCRIPT I WROTE THAT GOT MADE WAS A MOVIE
CALLED "W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCE KINGS," BUT I THOUGHT THEY
REALLY MESSED IT UP.
BUT THEN THEY ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO WRITE THE
NOVELIZATION, AND I SAID YES.
AND I SAID YES BECAUSE I THOUGHT, WELL AT LEAST ONE
PERSON WILL KNOW WHAT I INTENDED.
I'M THAT ONE PERSON!
( LAUGHTER )
THAT'S A GREAT STORY.
BUT IT RAISES-- WELL, THAT RAISES A VERY INTERESTING
QUANDARY HERE IS THAT YOU WROTE "ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD,"
AND YOU DIRECTED "ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD," AND YOU
STILL FEEL THAT QUENTIN TARANTINO DIDN'T GET IT WRITE,
SO YOU DECIDED TO NOVELIZE?
THEN WHY WRITE IT.
>> WHY I WROTE THIS, SOME TIME IN THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF OR
SO-- I I GUESS TWO YEARS-- I STARTED THINKING ABOUT THOSE
NOVELIZATIONS THAT I GREW UP READING.
I STILL HAD THEM ALL.
SO I GOT THEM ALL TOGETHER, AND WE HAD A LITTLE TEA PARTY-- WE
GOT THEM ALL TOGETHER, AND THEN I STARTED READING SOME OF THE
ONES I LIKED BEFORE, AND I LIKED THEM JUST AS MUCH AS DITHEN, AND
I STARTED READING SOME OF THE ONES I BOUGHT THAT I NEVER GOT
READING.
AND I THOUGHT I KNOW THIS IS A DEBASED GENRE OF LITERATURE BUT
I'M ALL ABOUT DEBASED GENRES OF ART THAT PEOPLE DON'T RESPECT.
AND I WAS LIKE THESE ARE FUN, THESE ARE REALLY, REALLY FUN.
I SHOULD DO ONE OF THESE.
MY INITIAL THOUGHT WAS TO DO A NOVELIZATION OF "RESERVOIR
DOGS."
>> Stephen: AND JUST WORK THROUGH.
>> I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT, BUT LET ME START WITH ONE.
I THOUGHT "RESERVOIR DOGS."
AND I WROTE TWO CHAPTERS.
AND PART OF THE REASON I THOUGHT THE "RESERVOIR DOGS" WOULD BE
GOOD, THERE'S A CRIME AND MYSTERY SECTION IN EVERY BOOK
STORE.
THEN I WAS WRITING AND THOUGHT WAIT A MINUTE.
WHAT AM I DOING?
MY LAST MOVIE WAS "ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD."
PEOPLE SEEMED TO LIKE IT.
IT WAS A SUCCESS.
PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THOSE CHARACTERS.
AND I HAVE A TON OF MATERIAL THAT I COULD NEVER PUT IN THE
MOVIE.
SO WHY -- >> Stephen: WHY DO YOU HAVE A
TON OF MATERIAL THAT CAN NEVER FIT IN THE MOVIE?
>> BECAUSE THE MOVIE IS ONLY SO MUCH-- IT CAN ONLY BE SO LONG.
I HAD A TON OF STUFF, BUT WHEN YOU PUT IT INTO A MOVIE, IT'S
GOT TO -- >> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A
QUICK BREAK.
DON'T GO ANYWHERE, WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH MORE QUENTIN
TARANTINO, EVERYBODY.