We’re ever-so-slightly closer to finding out what Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth got up to after he helped Rick subdue those hippie intruders at the end of Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood. A trailer for the long-gestating sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film debuted during the Super Bowl, with a healthy dose of censorship for the film’s cigarettes, booze, nudity, and who knows what else. The trailer didn’t even feature the film’s title (The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, as far as we know), much less a release date.
This film was first confirmed back in April, and is speculated to be based on what existed of The Movie Critic, a film that Tarantino had at one point intended to be his tenth feature but apparently abandoned. As far we know, that’s the extent of Tarantino’s involvement in the picture. At the time, it was reported that Pitt’s Once Upon A Time co-star Leonardo DiCaprio was unlikely to appear in the sequel, which the trailer seems to validate. However, Variety reports that Scott Caan, Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, and JB Tadena are all in the cast, as well as Timothy Olyphant, who returns from the first movie. David Fincher, who has an exclusive deal with Netflix, will direct. The film doesn’t yet have a release date, either, but hopefully this can be one of those movies that gets one of those theatrical windows, of which the city slickers are so fond.