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Quentin Tarantino apparently closed the book Rick Daltonthe actor portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio Once upon a time… in Hollywood.

Tarantino made the announcement via The video archive Podcast he hosts pulp Fiction co-author Roger Avary. A series of tweets announced the death and noted that Tuesday’s podcast will be “a Quentin-directed memorial episode featuring some of Rick’s best roles.”

The Video Archive Podcast Here, Tarantino and Avary “revisit classics on VHS and discover new favorites.” New episodes usually come out every other Tuesday, but apparently the schedule has been sped up to accommodate the breaking news.

Tarantino has previously described Dalton’s life. In 2021, he told the podcaster Jeff Goldsmith that he had a biography.

“I have written Rick Dalton movies book,” he said. “It’s written as if Rick were real. You know, they have Charles Bronson movies And Anthony Quinn MoviesWell, it’s done that way, with a synopsis and then some critical quotes from the time, and the book goes through every single film Rick made up through the end of his career in 1988, I think, and every one some of them his episodic television shows.”

In this interview, Tarantino talked about a movie called The fireman, with Dalton and stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). This imaginary film was set a decade after Hollywood.

“The main character was in the Vietnam War, he became a cop,” Tarantino said. “And then he starts seeing this whole bunch of bad cops killing these totally corrupt guys and they end up killing his partner, played by a very young Sam Jackson. Then Rick targets those bad cops, disguises himself as a fireman, has his flamethrower and burns them all down.”