Sony Pictures
Audio By Carbonatix
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Elizabeth Debicki, Carla Gugino, and Scott Caan have joined the cast of the Brad Pitt-starring Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel that’s set to be directed by David Fincher. The film will reportedly be titled The Adventures of Cliff Booth.
The Adventures of Cliff Booth, written by Quentin Tarantino, will be a sequel to his 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which starred Brad Pitt as stuntman Cliff Booth alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie and more.
Production on The Adventures of Cliff Booth is set to begin later this year, with the deluge of recent casting news perhaps suggesting it could even shoot this summer. One source reportedly told The Hollywood Reporterthat the film “is more secretive than Star Wars.”
“Much of the project is shrouded in secrecy, but it is known to center on Cliff Booth, the former stuntman and body double to TV actor Rick Dalton, as seen in Tarantino’s 2019 film. It is set in a later time period than that movie. It is unclear how much of the material, if any, is based on Tarantino’s 2021 novel by the same name and which revealed more of Cliff’s backstory, including the death of his wife.”
“The story’s origins lie in a script that Tarantino wrote for himself to direct, but eventually put it aside. Pitt convinced the filmmaker to let Fincher take a stab at directing it, setting it up earlier this spring.”
It’s certainly easy to understand why Pitt would be eager to return to the roll of Cliff Booth has he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing the character in 2020, marking the first acting Oscar of his career (Pitt’s won a few as a producer).
Ever since the project was announced, though, movie fans have had a hard time believing that it’s actually a real project given the unique alchemy of talent involved.
“Still can’t believe the Cliff Booth movie is happening holy s—,” one person tweeted, likely expressing the sentiment of many movie fans out there (it doesn’t help that the news of the film originally broke on April 1, April Fool’s Day).
David Fincher, for example, has never directed a sequel/franchise film in the entirety of his career, which includes iconic movies such as Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network, Gone Girl, and more.