And away we go! Following the remarkable news that dropped earlier this year about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood getting a David Fincher directed follow-up starring Brad Pitt once again as stuntman Cliff Booth, Variety is now reporting that not only is the film — officially titled, handily, The Adventures Of Cliff Booth — coming soon, but that it also may well be coming to cinemas.
Writing in a piece about Netflix and AMC Cinemas burying the hatchet to tag team on theatrical releases, Rebecca Rubin revealed that The Adventures Of Cliff Booth is eyeing a Summer 2026 release, with Netflix “contemplating a more robust rollout” for the Tarantino penned joint. Given that this tidbit is nestled alongside discussion of Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie getting a two-week exclusive IMAX run next year, it seems safe to assume similar plans are being discussed by the streamer for Fincher’s secretive Once Upon A Time In Hollywood follow-up.
Beyond reportedly being set in 1977, precious little else is currently known about The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, which has been shooting in LA since late July and is expected to wrap production sometime early next year. Pitt is obviously back as Booth, who it’s believed at the point the story picks up is now something of a Hollywood studio fixer. Alongside him however, the only other OUATIH alum currently on the call sheet isn’t Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton, but rather Timothy Olyphant’s James Stacy. The duo will be joined by an eye-catching ensemble including Scott Caan, Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, JB Tadena, and Corey Fogelmanis, with Fincher regular collaborator Erik Messerschmidt (Mank, The Killer) on DoP duty this time around, taking over from the first movie’s Oscar nominated cinematographer Robert Richardson.
For Fincher and Pitt, who previously collaborated to sensational effect on Fight Club and Seven, this project will mark the duo’s first time working together since 2008’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. Here’s hoping The Adventures Of Cliff Booth — or Once Upon Another Time In Hollywood, as precisely nobody is calling it — will pay off the seventeen year wait to see two of cinema’s true greats back together again. Yellow Hawaiian shirts and aviator shades at the ready people, Cliff Booth summer is a-comin’!
