New Tarantino 1969 movie plot details emerge Last week, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino jumped ship from The Weinstein Company to Sony Pictures as the new home for his upcoming ninth feature film. Now Vanity Fair has revealed the first plot details for the set-in-1969 movie from a source that has read the script: “Set in Los Angeles in the summer of 1969, Tarantino’s upcoming movie focuses on a male TV actor who’s had one hit series and his looking for a way to get into the film business.