Quentin Tarantino’s high-profile Charles Manson movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has moved its release date up by two weeks to July 26.
Releasing on the actual anniversary is the new book of final interviews from Manson himself Hippie Cult Leader: The Last Words of Charles Manson by filmmaker and author James Buddy Day available August 8.
Award-winning documentarian and author James Buddy Day spent a year interviewing Charles Manson by phone from his cell in California State Prison, over the last year of Manson’s life.
Day was the last documentarian to have access to Manson and for Manson to willingly participate in telling his story. These recordings were the basis of the award-winning documentary Charles Manson: The Final Words, which premiered on REELZ Channel and now expanding in forthcoming book Hippie Cult Leader: The Last Words of Charles Manson.
August 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the Manson Family Murders.
The crimes defined a generation and remain an incredible source of public fascination. How could a no-account drifter and ex-con become a charismatic leader of what prosecutors called a diabolical murder cult? Some have proposed that the prosecution made-up the race war theory in order to more easily convict Manson through a sensational conspiracy narrative. If the prosecution did construct the Helter Skelter theory, is convicting a man like Charles Manson so essential that any means of achieving it is acceptable?