Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Poster Has Led To Some Puzzled Reactions

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is one of the most anticipated movies of 2019, not only because it was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, which is always a cause for celebration, but because of the cast involved. Leonardo DiCaprio! Brad Pitt! Margot Robbie! Al Pacino! Scoot McNairy! The list goes on and on (Damian Lewis! Dakota Fanning! Timothy Olyphant! Bruce Dern!). Excitement is especially high this week, with the first trailer for Hollywood rumored to drop tomorrow. Hopefully, it’s a lot better than the movie’s poster.

That’s not NOT Pitt and DiCaprio, but also, why does Pitt’s face look like that Did someone forget that DiCaprio is 44 years old What are they leaning against Tarantino movie posters are usually very good — think of Uma Thurman smoking on the one-sheet for Pulp Fiction, or the strikingly yellow artwork for Kill Bill — but Once Upon a Time in Hollywood leaves a lot to be desired. Unless the designers wanted Pitt to be compared to Jim Carrey, in which case: mission accomplished. (We tease because we’re VERY excited.)

Others got in on the fun, too.

— Andrew Jones Returns (@EthanRunt) March 18, 2019

You can't release a new Tarantino mystery movie without Larry the Cable Guy, Health Inspector on the case pic.twitter.com/VBx25ICipa

— Jason (@jasonosia) March 18, 2019

hey guys it’s me ! The person who designed the once upon a time in hollywood poster! Time to take a big sip of coffee and see how twitter are loving it!

— emma (@emamma_mia) March 18, 2019

This FLETCH remake looks great! pic.twitter.com/yHouoIIr45

— Jonah Ray Rodrigues (@jonahray) March 18, 2019

whoever made the once upon a time in hollywood poster is a master scam artist and i must pay my respects to her. reveal yourself queen

— hunter harris (@hunteryharris) March 18, 2019

i like this poster because it’s like Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are cosplaying as each other pic.twitter.com/1XRHfujZje

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) March 18, 2019

this image is "no homo" in poster form pic.twitter.com/4xAnaV2tI2

— Alison Herman (@aherman2006) March 18, 2019

— Will Kellogg (@Will_Kellogg) March 18, 2019

I'm so surprised Tarantino went in this direction. But am curious! pic.twitter.com/cdYYlSealu

— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) March 18, 2019

Starring Brad Pitt as Matthew McConnaughey and Leonardo DiCaprio as Brad Pitt pic.twitter.com/HP7idbggKt

— Craig. (@ALifeViaALens) March 18, 2019

Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are about to discover…there's more than one way to get high, baby

in Quentin Tarantino's

GOOD TIME SLIM, UNCLE DOOBIE, AND THE GREAT FRISCO FREAK-OUT pic.twitter.com/tFwKBezWpO

— Alejandro A. Arbona (@Alejandrobot) March 18, 2019

The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood poster is the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days poster of our modern era

— Tessa Strain (@tessastrain) March 18, 2019

It can’t be unseen.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which “takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood,” according to QT, opens on July 26.