Quentin Tarantino to Publish ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth' Novel, Out December 8

Quentin Tarantino has written a novel based on"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" character Cliff Booth, and it will arrive just before David Fincher's Brad Pitt-led film hits Netflix.

The book is titled "The Adventures of Cliff Booth," which, if you've been following along, was the original title of Fincher's film before it was renamed "The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth." HarperCollins will publish the novel on December 8. Fincher's film opens in IMAX theaters on November 25 before streaming on Netflix on December 23.

According to Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, the new book “offers Tarantino’s own creative vision for this story in novel form.”

This isn't Tarantino's first time turning his own material into prose. He also wrote the screenplay for Fincher's film, and he published a novelization of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" in 2021, which was a genuinely good read and went further into Cliff's dark past.

Plot details for the sequel are still being kept under wraps, but the novel's logline gives us a hint of where we're headed: "The Swinging Sixties are long gone — but Clifford Booth keeps on keeping on… War hero, stuntman, bartender, cinema projectionist… with the occasional 'clandestine services' for his friends…"

If you remember, Tarantino passed on directing "Cliff Booth" himself because of his 10-movie rule. He's made nine films, and he didn't want a sequel to be his swan song.

"I love this script, but I'm still walking down the same ground I've already walked," Tarantino said last year on "The Church of Tarantino" podcast. "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 won’t even argue with that logic. It’s already been discussed ad nauseum. That said, handing the script to Fincher, a filmmaker with a completely different sensibility, is a fascinating experiment, and movie fans are very curious about how the film will turn out.