The title of David Fincher’s sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood appears to have been revealed – and it’s too long to fit here.
It’s highly unusual for a piece of industry gossip to appear unannounced in the middle of a journalist’s question, but that seems to be what happened earlier this week. In an interview with Sinners director Ryan Coogler, Deadline writer Mike Fleming Jr asked a 150-word question that appears to reveal the title for director David Fincher’s sequel to Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood.
In a further twist, there’s also what appears to be a morsel of new information about said sequel’s plot. As spotted by World of Reel, the relevant bit of Fleming Jr’s question goes like this:
Quentin Tarantino creates these characters and mythologies so rich they beg for sequels he never had time to make. He was going to revive Brad Pitt’s stuntman character from Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood. Quentin decided to do something else for his final film. Now David Fincher will direct Pitt for Netflix what I’ve heard is called The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth, where the stuntman becomes a Hollywood studio fixer.
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A few weeks ago, we previously heard rumours that Fincher and Tarantino’s sequel will take place in 1977 – eight years after the events of Once Upon A Time. By the sounds of things, the passage of time has prompted Cliff Booth to retire from his career as a stunt performer and take on a somewhat darker film industry role: as a studio ‘fixer’.
Someone whose sole job is to cover up the less palatable activities of Hollywood stars, the most famous example of a studio fixer is perhaps Eddie Mannix – a former amusement park bouncer who started working for MGM in the 1920s. Bob Hoskins played Mannix in 2006’s Hollywoodland, while Josh Brolin starred as a more heavily fictionalised incarnation in the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! ten years later.
Word is that The Continuing Adventures Of Cliff Booth – if that is indeed its title – will begin filming this July, ready for a release on Netflix in 2026. None of this is confirmed as yet, though.
If you’re wondering what Fleming Jr was trying to ask in his lengthy question, it was this: would Ryan Coogler consider making Sinners 2? Coogler’s response, in essence, was “too early to say.”
Sinners is currently in cinemas and is genuinely terrific. Do go and see it.
