Quentin Tarantino to Publish ‘Cliff Booth’ Novel Before Brad Pitt and David Fincher’s Movie Streams on Netflix — SkimNews
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- Quentin Tarantino will publish "The Adventures of Cliff Booth" on Dec. 8 via HarperCollins, a companion piece to the David Fincher-directed Netflix sequel "The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth"
- The sequel film opens in Imax on Nov. 25 before streaming on Netflix on Dec. 23, with Brad Pitt reprising his Oscar-winning role as longtime stuntman Cliff Booth
- Netflix is producing the follow-up on a $200 million production budget; the original Sony-released "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" earned more than $400 million worldwide on a $90 million budget and won two Oscars from 10 nominations
- Tarantino declined to direct the sequel because he wants his 10th and final film to be in "uncharted territory," not retreaded ground — he's made nine features so far
- The novel and film are both set in Hollywood, 1977, eight years after the original, with the book's logline teasing Booth as "war hero, stuntman, bartender, cinema projectionist" who performs "occasional clandestine services" for friends
- Tarantino previously novelized "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," the 2019 film that Pitt starred in opposite Leonardo DiCaprio
Why it matters: Netflix is spending $200 million on a sequel to a nine-year-old film whose original grossed $400 million, and Tarantino is using the novel — a format he's embraced before — to build pre-release buzz across a tight Nov. 25–Dec. 23 theatrical-to-streaming window. Pitt's return in a Tarantino-written starring role is the commercial hook.
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