While directing The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth, David Fincher says he cut 40 pages out of Quentin Tarantino’s original script. Update: There’s just over a month to go until the sequel to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood emerges in cinemas. This is The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth, a 1977-set thriller that Quentin ... The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth | David Fincher cut 40 pages of Tarantino’s script
While directing The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth, David Fincher says he cut 40 pages out of Quentin Tarantino’s original script.
Update: There’s just over a month to go until the sequel to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood emerges in cinemas. This is The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth, a 1977-set thriller that Quentin Tarantino was at one stage going to direct himself.
Instead, Tarantino shelved it – until Cliff Booth actor Brad Pitt convinced his old colleague David Fincher to step in.
By the sounds of things, Fincher hasn’t treated this as some work-for-hire gig, however. Interviewed in the latest edition of Empire magazine, the Seven and Zodiac filmmaker said that the first draft he read was 230 pages. If we go by the old screenwriting rule of thumb of each page equating to a minute of screentime, that’s three hours and 50 minutes.
That’s even longer than The Hateful Eight (three hours 2 minutes), and not much shorter than Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (four hours and 41 minutes), which Tarantino wisely chopped into two movies for its original cinema run.
“It was essentially two movies,” Fincher said.
Now, Fincher adds, Cliff Booth is a much leaner two hours and 20 minutes. Tarantino, also interviewed by Empire, says that the sequel, which catches up with the former stunt man years after he stopped working with Rick Dalton, is less of a “hangout movie” than its predecessor, and more of a pulpy thriller like Jackie Brown. Sounds good to us.
The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth will debut in IMAX cinemas on the 25th November before streaming on Netflix from the 23rd December.
Previously…
23rd August 2026: Netflix has finally, formally announced the name for its upcoming Cliff Booth movie – essentially, a sequel to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, with a script by Quentin Tarantino and direction courtesy of David Fincher.
It’s called The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth. Which is pretty close to The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, the title doing the rounds for at least a year or so.
For some reason, Netflix went all vague and coy there for a while, referring to it in previous press releases as “the movie”, “the film”, and “David Fincher’s newest film” (see below).
Presumably, there’d been a bit of back-and-forth at the studio over what exactly it should be called – and now they’ve arrived back where they started, with a title slightly longer than before. We suspect most will just call it Cliff Booth in any case. People are into that whole brevity thing.
David Fincher’s Newest Film will debut in IMAX cinemas on the 25th November before streaming on Netflix from the 23rd December.
Our original story follows…
21st May 2026: Is The Adventures Of Cliff Booth getting a title change? A press release sent to us from Netflix certainly gives us that suspicion – but more on that in one second.
First, good news for those who like their movies on unfeasibly large screens: David Fincher’s new film, starring Brad Pitt and with a script by Quentin Tarantino, is getting a two-week run in IMAX cinemas.
It’ll debut on the 25th November before it starts streaming on Netflix from the 23rd December. A bit of Fincher for Christmas!
This is the long-trailed sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, with Pitt reprising his role as the stuntman who may or may not have murdered his own wife. The sequel, written by Tarantino, moves forward in time to 1977 and a “very different Hollywood,” per Netflix’s logline. Booth is now a ‘fixer’, whose job is to keep Hollywood stars’ salacious antics out of the newspapers – a gig that leaves the anti-hero with a foot in both the glamorous and unseemly sides of Los Angeles. His old chum Rick Dalton is nowhere to be seen.
For several months, the title bandied about was The Adventures Of Cliff Booth. But now Netflix’s promotion has us thinking it hasn’t settled on a name at all – or is keeping it quiet for some reason.
The above-mentioned press release is written in a way that specifically avoids dropping the title. In both the subject and the headline, it’s billed as “David Fincher’s newest film.”
On Netflix’s own Tudum site, it’s described as “the film” and “the movie.”
And, having looked at it again with a bit more scrutiny, the one-minute teaser, which aired in February, doesn’t mention the film by name. It’s simply been titled The Adventures Of Cliff Booth by the various outlets that have recorded and uploaded it (the ad first appeared during the Superbowl).
So what gives? Is there a reason to be so coy about the title? It certainly makes the movie hard to promote. Or maybe its title is actually David Fincher’s Newest Film. We should probably go with that for now.
David Fincher’s Newest Film co-stars Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Matt Groove, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis and Karren Karagulian.
It’ll debut in IMAX cinemas on the 25th November before appearing on Netflix from the 23rd December.
We’ll bring you more on its mysterious title as we get it.
