Netflix didn’t release the surprise first look of Brad Pitt’s return as stuntman Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel The Adventures of Cliff Booth during the Super Bowl.
The short teaser played retro music and showed Cliff relaxing at a bar, behind the scenes on a movie set, and behind the wheel of a derby car on a dirt track. Throughout the teaser, shots of naked women, cigarettes, middle fingers, guns, and people cursing popped up in cheeky censorship gags. Elizabeth Debicki and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II both showed up wearing old Hollywood costumes, and there was also a shot of Cliff holding an Oscar statuette on his desk.
The cool and charming stuntman first appeared in Tarantino’s 2019 original film, and he’s now featured even more in David Fincher’s sequel. Tarantino wrote the script, but decided to hand over the directorship to Fincher, as the director of the original Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is still trying to make his tenth and final film. Fincher’s relationship with Netflix dates back to the TV series “Mindhunter” and includes recent films “The Killer” and “Mank.”
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ended with Booth and his co-star and friend Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) revising history by killing the Manson Family killers on the night that Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Stephen Parent would have been killed in 1969. The Adventures of Cliff Booth begins in the 1970s. DiCaprio’s Dalton is not expected to return for the spinoff, but Booth will return along with new characters played by Scott Caan, Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, and JB Tadena. It has also been confirmed that Timothy Olyphant will be reprising his role as James Stacy from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Tarantino is producing alongside Pitt, David Heyman, Seán Chaffin and Stacey Sher. Fincher’s frequent collaborator Eric Messerschmidt is the film’s cinematographer. The film was shot on location in Los Angeles.
