New details have emerged about the Cliff Booth movie that David Fincher is making with Brad Pitt. It was reported last week that Fincher was working on a Once Upon a Time in Hollywood movie for Netflix. The original was released in 2019, and was directed by Quentin Tarantino and starred Pitt as a stuntman named Cliff Booth, while Leonardo DiCaprio played an actor named Rick Dalton. Fincher’s film will see Pitt reprise his character from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. At this stage it is not known if DiCaprio will also return.
Speaking on The Big Picture podcast, Sean Fennessey, who is friend’s with Tarantino, said that “it definitely seems like this movie is happening. David Fincher’s laundry list of movies that have never made it to the big screen or to Netflix streaming service is pretty long…I don’t know if this is like a locked picture that is going into production in July. It seems like it is.”
He continued, “This probably should not be thought of as a sequel. It should be thought of as a follow-up that is connected to, but not the same as — the example that was cited to me was, think about how The Big Sleep, the Raymond Chandler adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart, is in the same world as Farewell, My Lovely, the 1975 Robert Mitchum movie, because they play the same character in that movie. But it’s different actors, different directors, and a different time in the storyline. They’re different.…This will be like the further adventures of Cliff Booth, is my understanding of it. The only other important information that I’ve learned, that I think is confirmed, is that the movie takes place in 1977, which is roughly eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. So a different time in Cliff Booth’s life.”
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