New details regarding David Fincher’s Cliff Booth movie starring Brad Pitt.
It was reported last week that Fincher was working on a “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” sequel for Netflix. Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay which was originally supposed to be his 10th and final film.
Speaking on The Big Picture podcast, Sean Fennessey, who is a friend of Tarantino’s, asked his sources, and confirmed that “it seems like this movie is actually happening.
“David Fincher’s laundry list of movies that have never made it to the big screen or to Netflix streaming service is pretty long…I don’t know if this is like a locked picture that is going into production in July. It seems like it is.”
He continued, “This probably should not be thought of as a sequel. It should be thought of as a follow-up that is connected to, but not the same as — the example that was cited to me was, think about how “The Big Sleep,” the Raymond Chandler adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart, is in the same world as “Farewell, My Lovely,” the 1975 Robert Mitchum movie, because they play the same character in that movie. But it’s different actors, different directors, and a different time in the storyline. They’re different.
“…This will be like the further adventures of Cliff Booth, is my understanding of it. The only other important information that I’ve learned, that I think is confirmed, is that the movie takes place in 1977, which is roughly eight years after the events of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” So a different time in Cliff Booth’s life.”
In March 2023, Tarantino told an audience how his next film was set in 1977 and no longer had a movie critic as the main character. Presumably, this must have been around the time Tarantino’s screenplay morphed into becoming a Cliff Booth movie.
The Fincher project is being set up at Netflix, where he has a first-look deal. The budget is said to be around $200M. Pitt and Fincher have worked on three films together: “Se7en,” “Fight Club” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
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