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For three decades, Quentin Tarantino has been cinema’s wild card, stitching grindhouse grit with silver screen swagger, but The Adventures of Cliff Booth changes that. It is something stranger, sharper, and more unhinged than anything in his arsenal so far.
This time, Tarantino is taking a backseat as David Fincher is calling the shots. And together, they have built a world where the golden age glow of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has curdled into something colder.
Cliff Booth has evolved into more than just a stuntman now. He is a fixer, a relic of Hollywood’s past trudging through its rotting present. What started as a quiet epilogue has become a pulpy, noir-soaked fever dream. It is not the tenth film Tarantino promised us, but it might be the most deliciously off-script thing he has ever done.
When David Fincher approached Tarantino with a fresh take on the stuntman-turned-enigma, a new collaboration was born. While the character and soul are Tarantino’s, Fincher’s sharp eye and signature grit now steer the ship. The result? A stylish crime tale set in post-Dalton Hollywood, where Cliff trades stunts for hush-hush cleanups. Expect brooding tension, deadpan humor, and a dazzling collision of two master storytellers. Without much being said, we can expect The Adventures of Cliff Booth to be a reinvention simmering in noir and nostalgia.
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Production of The Adventures of Cliff Booth has officially begun, led by Netflix. While Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay, David Fincher, who is taking over the director’s chair, is marking a bold stylistic pivot from sunny nostalgia to Fincher’s trademark shadows and sharp edges.
Brad Pitt returns as the effortlessly cool stuntman turned enigma, now navigating a gritty 1970s Los Angeles. This is Pitt’s third collaboration with Fincher, after Fight Club and Seven, so expectations are sky-high. The cast is new, but the roles are secret. Joining Pitt are Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, JB Tadena, and Corey Fogelmanis.
Filming is already rolling through Highland Park, Los Angeles, and the Highland Theatre is reportedly a central location.
Visually, the change will be immediate. Erik Messerschmidt, Fincher’s Oscar-winning cinematographer from Mank and The Killer, is behind the lens. Compared to Robert Richardson’s warm glow in Once Upon a Time, this will be a very different kind of beautiful.
As a Netflix original, The Adventures of Cliff Booth will certainly debut on the platform in 2026, with maybe a few festival screenings before that, as per Variety. It is Fincher’s third Netflix film, following Mank and The Killer, continuing his allegiance with the streamer.
Behind the scenes, Pitt and Tarantino are producing, along with David Heyman, Ceán Chaffin, and Stacy Sher. The Adventures of Cliff Booth is backed by Plan B and Panic Pictures, and it’s headed straight to Netflix.
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