Brad Pitt provides important update on ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’
Brad Pitt has provided an update on his upcoming movie The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a spinoff of the Oscar-winning Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood that was released in 2019.
The project came as a surprise for many in the industry when it was first reported in April. Instead of Tarantino, The Social Network’s David Fincher will be in the director’s chair, working off a script by the Pulp Fiction filmmaker. As the title suggests, The Adventures of Cliff Booth will focus on Pitt’s titular character, a laid-back stuntman in 1970s Hollywood.
The first film took a revisionist approach to the Manson murders and followed Leonardo DiCaprio’s washed-up matinee idol, Rick Dalton, and his friendship with his long-time stunt man, Cliff. Pitt earned an Oscar for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for his performance and is now set to be the star of the sequel.
In an interview with Deadline during a red carpet event for his latest film, F1, the Ocean’s 11 star offered insight into what has so far been a highly secretive project, including details on when it will start filming. “This is something Quentin Tarantino wrote,” he said.
Pitt continued: “It’s an episode, not really a sequel, of the character from Once Upon A Time. He didn’t want to direct it at this point, so our mutual friend David Fincher stepped in, and we’re going to start filming in July. It should be really good fun.”
Although plot details have been kept largely under wraps, Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr revealed in April that the Netflix-produced movie will follow Cliff’s evolution from stuntman to Hollywood fixer, a job that peaked in Old Hollywood and entailed sorting out complicated, usually reputation-threatening issues involving high-profile industry figures such as actors or studio bosses.
Fincher and Pitt have a long and fruitful relationship as collaborators, starting with the controversial horror/police procedural Se7en in 1995 and continuing with the beloved drama Fight Club four years later.
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