Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth Falls Into ‘Further Mis-Adventures’ in New Trailer — SkimNews
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- Netflix released the first full trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, a quasi-sequel to 2019's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood set eight years later in 1977
- Brad Pitt reprises Cliff Booth, who is no longer doubling Rick Dalton — "got too fat for me to double him anymore," Booth quips — and is now freelancing as a "studio fixer"
- David Fincher directs from a Quentin Tarantino screenplay, reuniting with Pitt after Seven, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Tarantino wrote the script but opted to hand directing duties to Fincher
- The film opens in theaters November 25 before streaming on Netflix December 23, per Netflix's synopsis
- The supporting cast includes Scott Caan, Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, and JB Tadena, with Timothy Olyphant reprising his Hollywood role as real-life Western actor James Stacy
- The trailer hops from movie theaters to bars to demolition derbies, hinting at Tarantino-esque fare — axe-yielding hitmen, bags of money, and gangsters — soundtracked to Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll"
Why it matters: Netflix pairs prestige filmmaker Fincher with A-lister Pitt and Tarantino's brand for a theatrical-plus-streaming hybrid (theaters Nov. 25, streaming Dec. 23), betting fans of the 2019 original will follow Booth into 1977; handing Tarantino's script to Fincher signals Netflix is treating this as awards-season counter-programming, not just catalog filler.
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