David Fincher’s ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ confirmed for IMAX before Netflix release
The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a spinoff of the Oscar-winning Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, will be premiering for global audiences in IMAX for two weeks before debuting on Netflix.
However, 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.
While the first movie was set in 1969, and saw Brad Pitt’s character navigating the final days of Hollywood’s Golden Age in Los Angeles alongside his actor boss, The Adventures of Cliff Booth will focus more closely on Pitt in 1977 in a very different Hollywood.
His free-wheeling and death-defying adventures will debut in IMAX theatres globally for a two-week run starting on November 25th. Following this, the movie will debut on Netflix on December 23rd.
At the end of the first film, the characters of Cliff Booth and Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, were seen changing the course of history by killing the Manson family murderers.
Though he survived the massacre, DiCaprio is not expected to return for the second movie. Instead, Pitt is returning alongside the likes of Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Scott Caan, and Carla Gugino. Timothy Olyphant will also return in his original role of James Stacy.
Upon the announcement of the movie, Pitt revealed, “It’s an episode, not really a sequel, of the character from Once Upon A Time. He [Tarantino] 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.”
The first teaser of the highly anticipated movie premiered on February 8th during the Super Bowl, though it didn’t offer up many plot details as alcohol, drugs, and nudity were jokingly censored out to suit the primetime TV spot.
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