Tarantino is currently putting finishing touches on the script, which hasn’t yet been titled, and he has reportedly approached Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence for roles in the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter and Variety.  On this day in 1969, the 26-year-old actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of acclaimed movie director Roman Polanski (Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown), is found murdered along with four other people at her Los Angeles home. Throw in Jennifer Lawrence as the Manson Family’s most famous victim, flaxen-haired actress Sharon Tate, and, well, who could ask for anything more? The career criminal and cult leaderCharles Manson and his followers, who lived together on the outskirts of L.A. in a commune where drug use and orgies were common, were later convicted for the murders. He has since somewhat walked back that retirement plan, but at the time, in the midst of expressing his undying love for film, he said: 
 
 If I’m gonna do TV in public, I’d rather just write one of my big scripts and do it as a miniseries for HBO, and then I don’t have the time pressure that I’m always under, and I get to actually use all the script . This whole thing makes me feel something, all right — sick to my stomach. He was convicted and given the death penalty, a sentence that was commuted to life behind bars when the CaliforniaSupreme Court overturned the death penalty law in 1972.
– Quentin Tarantino may have found his next movie, one that's already proving controversial despite scarce details. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino has written and will direct "a unique take" on the murders carried out by Charles Manson and his followers in the 1960s. Details of the script aren't clear, but the film will reportedly include the brutal Aug. 9, 1969, killings of five people, including a pregnant Sharon Tate, at the Los Angeles home she shared with her husband, Roman Polanski. Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence, Margot Robbie, and Samuel L. Jackson have reportedly been approached. Deadline reports Robbie is eyed to play Tate, while Pitt may take on the role of the detective investigating the murders. Filming isn't scheduled to begin until 2018, but Josh Dickey is already convinced the movie is a "disgusting idea." There will be no sensitivity from the director who "made killing seem stylish and cool," he writes at Mashable, predicting a distasteful "gore-fest." At the Washington Post, however, Travis M. Andrews notes the "no-holds-barred, blood-soaked epics" Tarantino is famous for make this pairing "seem like a perfect fit." Joanna Robinson at Vanity Fair even hopes for more than a feature film: Only a miniseries—which Tarantino has suggested he might be interested in at some point—can capture "the slow creep of [Manson's] mania and the long unraveling of his tight-knit 'family,'" Robinson writes. (One of the killers involved in the Tate murder scene was just denied parole.)