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Everything We Know About the ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Sequel

Netflix's The Adventures of Cliff Booth, written by Tarantino and directed by David Fincher, is one of the most anticipated films of the year

Everything We Know About the ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Sequel
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By Angie MartoccioFeb 10, 2026
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It’s been seven long years since we’ve seen Cliff Booth, Brad Pitt‘s World War II veteran turned stuntman in Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Do you miss his groovy trailer, or his pit bull, Brandy? How about the way he repairs a TV antenna on the roof, shirtless while smoking a cigarette? Well, we have good news for you: Booth is getting a film of his own. The Adventures of Cliff Booth, one of our most anticipated movies of the year, is coming to Netflix. Here’s everything we know about the sequel.

Brad Pitt will reprise his role, with David Fincher directing

In April 2025, it was announced that Pitt will return as Booth. And while Tarantino wrote the script, he isn’t returning as director. Instead, David Fincher will be at the helm, who previously worked with Pitt on 1995’s Seven, 1999’s Fight Club, and 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Tarantino says the project ‘unenthused’ him

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Tarantino’s ninth film, and he always said his 10th would be his last. The finale was originally supposed to be The Movie Critic — about a Seventies film critic who wrote for a porn magazine — but he scrapped it in April 2024. This is reportedly how Cliff Booth was born. “I love this script, but I’m still walking down the same ground I’ve already walked,” Tarantino said on the Church of Tarantino podcast in August 2025. “It just kind of unenthused me. This last movie, I’ve got to not know what I’m doing again. I’ve got to be in uncharted territory.”“I think me and David Fincher are the two best directors,” he added. “So the idea that David Fincher actually wants to adapt my work, to me, shows a level of seriousness towards my work that I think needs to be taken into account.”

Pitt has said it’s more of an “episode” than a sequel

In June 2025, during the European premiere for F1, Pitt described the upcoming project. “This is something Quentin wrote as an episode,” he said. “Not really a sequel, but an episode of the character from Once Upon a Time. But he didn’t want to direct it at this point. Our mutual friend, David Fincher, stepped in to direct it. We’re gonna start in July, and it should be really fun.”

The trailer arrived as a Super Bowl surprise

Super Bowl LX featured a game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, a historic halftime show from Bad Bunny, and, as always, a wide variety of commercials. In between the madness, Netflix surprise-dropped the Cliff Booth trailer, featuring our beloved stuntman. It opens with Elizabeth Debicki asking Booth about the events of Hollywood, when he and Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) helped “subdued those hippie intruders.” Booth tells her, “I don’t possess many talents. But I know better than getting in the way of a good story.”

The trailer also features Carla Gugino, Karren Karagulian, the fictional Big Kahuna Burger chain from the Tarantino-verse, and an advertisement for Looking for Mr. Goodbar (setting Cliff Booth in 1977). Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Timothy Olyphant, Scott Caan, and Peter Weller are also set to star, as well as Holt McCallany, who played FBI Special Agent Bill Tench in Fincher’s Mindhunter.

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