Netflix reportly paid Quentin Tarantino $20m for ‘Cliff Booth’ script
Quentin Tarantino sold the rights to his latest screenplay, The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth, to Netflix for $20million, a new report suggests.
According to a report at The InSneider, Tarantino bagged an impressive $20m for the unused script. The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth will be a sequel to Tarantino’s 2019 slaughter-stacked comedy Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel news broke back on April 1st, when The Playlist reported that Tarantino had been working on a new script derived from the original.
According to the new report, Brad Pitt played a pivotal role in this collaboration. The Fight Club actor was impressed by aspects of Tarantino’s script, which led him to suggest someone else direct it. This instantly led to David Fincher’s involvement.
While Tarantino usually directs his scripts, he has also written for films directed by others. Examples include From Dusk till Dawn and True Romance. The script fell to Fincher in part because Tarantino believes his 2023 film, The Killer, to be a “masterpiece”.
Details of the spin-off were revealed in an interview by Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. He revealed that “David Fincher will direct Pitt for Netflix what I’ve heard is called The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth, where the stuntman becomes a Hollywood studio fixer.”
A “studio fixer” worked in old-school Hollywood to cover up the tracks left by misbehaving Hollywood talent. This role is likely to get him in all sorts of trouble.
Thanks to the wording of a deal struck between Tarantino and Sony, which financed the original, Tarantino could sell the script. Their agreement maintains that while Sony owns Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Tarantino owns the characters. This separate story must, therefore, be far enough from the original to honour that agreement.
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