The Adventures Of Cliff Booth sees Brad Pitt’s laconic stuntman off to pastures new for director David Fincher.
This has to be one of the more unusual projects to spin out of Quentin Tarantino‘s career, and he’s entertained some odd notions over the years: the Vega brothers movie, the Bounty Law TV series, and so on. Most of QT’s spin-off projects never actually come to fruition, and that’s fine – that’s his prerogative. But it’s also why it feels kind of weird that this one is actually going to be on our screens before too long: a sequel to Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, following Brad Pitt‘s soft-spoken, murderously tough stuntman, Cliff Booth, written by Tarantino but directed by David Fincher. Let’s have a look:
The Adventures Of Cliff Booth Teaser
What’s the plot?
God knows! We don’t even have official images for this thing yet – that’s why the header image iss a rather murky screen grab. Looking at the teaser, it seems they’ve moved the time period up to the ’70s, but that could just me me reading too much into Pitt’s mustache.
Who’s in it?
Brad Pitt is back as Cliff Booth, naturally enough, and Timothy Olyphant is returning as real life TV Western star James Stacy, who had a fairly… complicated life. Other than those two, expect to see Scott Caan, Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, Corey Fogelmanis, JB Tadena, Karren Karagulian, Barry Livingston, Lauren Glazier, and Peter Weller.
When’s it out?
Uh… soon? Soonish? First half of the year sounds like a safe bet.
What’s the vibe?
Well, I’m keen for it, with a few caveats. The main one being I read Tarantino’s novelisation of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and as a novelist he’s a hell of a screenwriter. I really didn’t like the Cliff Booth depicted in the book, who was pretty much a straight up, unrepentant psycho, so I’m hoping we’re not getting that guy in The Adventures Of Cliff Booth. But hey: Tarantino, Fincher, Pitt – that’s a pretty good combo.
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