Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sequel gets new cast update

Netflix is cooking up a follow-up to Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 love letter to late-’60s Hollywood, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, this time with a new director, a fresh time period, and a whole lot of mystery. The project, based on a shelved Tarantino script, will center once again on Cliff Booth and is expected to explore his murky past and present.

Now for the casting bomb: Brad Pitt is reprising his Oscar-winning role, and joining him are Scott Caan and Elizabeth Debicki. The specifics of their characters? Totally under wraps, though sources hint at a bar-owning mud-wrestling queen and a dangerously pretty trophy wife.

Production starts this July in California. Tarantino may be stepping back from the director’s chair, but with Fincher steering and Netflix backing, this sequel is already looking like a slick, strange new chapter in the Tarantino-verse.

Debicki has previously earned praise for her role as Princess Diana in Netflix's The Crown. Other than that, she has starred in Ti West’s Maxxxine, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.

As for Caan, he has mostly worked in television and has starred in CBS’s long-running Hawaii Five-O series and Fox’s Alert: Missing Persons Unit. He has also been a part of the Ocean's movies.

More details about the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sequel

Set in 1977, nearly a decade after the Manson-era haze of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, the untitled project explores Brad Pitt's Cliff Booth’s evolution from an enigmatic stunt double to a full-time Hollywood fixer. Gone are the acid-drenched nights and fading western sets, in their place: the gritty, paranoid glitz of late-70s Tinseltown. Netflix is backing the production, which begins filming in July 2025 in California, thanks to Fincher’s long-standing first-look deal with the streamer.

Pitt won an Oscar for playing Booth back in 2019, and fans have been clamoring to see him return to the role. While more roles are under wraps, it can very well be expected to have some notable references from Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

The original film had a stellar cast with some actors who have gone on to become some of the biggest names in the industry now. It would surely be interesting to bet on which of the stars will make a return for the sequel and where their characters are placed as of yet.

Set against the dark shadow of the Manson Family murders, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood mixes real history with Tarantino’s signature twist of fiction, painting a world where the past and present collide in unexpected ways. Leonardo DiCaprio's Dalton Rick wrestles with fear, pride, and the harsh reality of getting older in an industry that worships youth, while Cliff plays the quiet guardian, the fixer who cleans up messes and protects his friend, no questions asked.