Cliff Booth is back, and this time Quentin Tarantino is only holding the pen. On September 21, 2026, Netflix released the first official trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel to Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. David Fincher directs from Tarantino’s script, and Brad Pitt returns as the laconic stuntman whose role won him an Oscar the first time around.
The pairing is unusual. Tarantino wrote the screenplay but handed the camera to Fincher, a director known for cold precision and endless takes. The trailer is punchy and plays to both men’s strengths: Tarantino’s period swagger and dialogue, with Fincher’s controlled menace on top.
Eight years later, a new line of work
The story jumps to Los Angeles in 1977, eight years after the events of the first film. Booth no longer does stunts. He now works as a fixer who cleans up problems for powerful people in Hollywood. According to Netflix’s synopsis, as reported by TheWrap, it is a crime story built as “a cocktail of violence, ambition, and desire.” An agent hires Booth to deal with a TV star who insists on doing his own stunts, and the job pulls him toward a string of odd characters and some mysterious gangsters.
The cast
- Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth
- Elizabeth Debicki as Karen Crosby, a talent agent
- Scott Caan as Charlie Peters, a TV megastar
- Carla Gugino as Toni Peters
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Roderick “Hot Rod” Harrison
- Matt Groove and JB Tadena as the Verdusco brothers
- Peter Weller, Corey Fogelmanis and Karren Karagulian in supporting roles
Behind the camera, Fincher brings in his regular collaborators. Erik Messerschmidt, who won an Oscar for Mank, is cinematographer, and Brad Pitt and Ceán Chaffin are among the producers. Principal photography took place in Los Angeles from July 2025 to January 2026.
Netflix goes big-screen first
The release plan is arguably the bigger story. The film is the first Netflix movie to be released in IMAX theaters around the world. It opens exclusively in IMAX on November 25, 2026 for a two-week engagement, then arrives on Netflix on December 23, 2026. TheWrap notes that the IMAX slot was originally held by Greta Gerwig’s Narnia, which later moved to February.
For a streamer that has long kept theatrical runs short and limited, putting a Fincher–Tarantino–Pitt project on IMAX screens worldwide is a clear change of approach. The project also went through several titles. It began as The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth, was shortened to The Adventures of Cliff Booth in June 2025, and got its final, hyphenated title in August 2026.
Tarantino fans get Booth’s wry charm and the dusty Hollywood backlots. Fincher fans get what the trailer suggests will be a tighter, darker crime film.
