Exclusive: Quentin Tarantino won't recut 'Once Upon a Time' for China
A source close to the situation tellsthat the auteur is taking a take-it-or-leave-it stance in the wake of Chinese regulators pulling the film from the schedule a week before its release in the country on Oct. 25.earlier on Oct. 18 that the release of the acclaimed film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, has been put on hold indefinitely. No explanation was given to Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio behind the film, as to why. Sony declined comment.
But Tarantino, who is known to be opposed to any kind of tinkering with his films and has final-cut rights included in his contract, has no plans to bring his film back to the editing bay, especially given that China has offered no explanation for what is objectionable in the film that revolves around the events leading up to the infamous Manson Family murders of 1969.
One source suggested that China may finally be balking at the film's violence, which is graphic at times but far less than a typical Tarantino film, even though it approved it for release there . The film would have marked Tarantino's first proper release in China and tapped into the country's enormous box-office potential. The film has earned $366 million to date and likely would have exceeded the $400 mark after bowing in the Middle Kingdom.
Many Hollywood studio films have undergone edits in order to get into the China, including last year's Oscar winning Queen music biopic
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