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Director David Fincher is set to helm a sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s beloved film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Brad Pitt to set to reprise his role as stuntman Cliff Booth. Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Booth in 2020.
The news, which dropped on April 1, is so insane that many film fans assumed it was a prank. Alas, the news is real, as the project was written by Quentin Tarantino himself, with reports indicating that Brad Pitt liked it so much that he brought it to David Fincher, whom he’s worked with on Seven, Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Fincher most recently directed The Killer for Netflix in 2023.
Reports indicate that the script was originally intended to be Tarantino’s previously reported tenth and allegedly final film, The Movie Critic, but eventually morphed into more adventures surrounding Cliff Booth. Before the project was scrapped, Pitt was cast in that project, too, with Deadline reporting that Booth would’ve been the “principal” character in the film.
Using his powerhouse Hollywood A-list relationship, Pitt was able to recruit Fincher, who clearly had Tarantino’s blessing, with The Hollywood Reporter stating that: “Pitt was taken by certain aspects of QT’s script, which never seemed to stop evolving. He asked the filmmaker whether he would consider letting someone else direct the untitled project. Tarantino replied, and we paraphrase here, ‘Depends on who.’”
“Brad Pitt indeed got Tarantino’s blessing to show Pitt’s Se7en director David Fincher the script that focuses on subsequent adventures of Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood’s Cliff Booth character. And because Fincher is exclusive to Netflix, the movie — if it gets made — will be financed and released by Netflix, straight to streaming. Tarantino will be paid a fortune for his words, as he readies a play he’s written and works on the final film he’ll direct. That one seems headed for Sony, where Tarantino directed the first film. No way Tarantino would helm his final film for a streaming service, but he respects Fincher and Netflix has been Fincher’s domain since he helped establish the streaming giant with House of Cards.” [via Deadline]
Tarantino’s decision to pass this Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel onto Fincher further highlights the creative pickle he’s placed himself in with his self-imposed 10-film-limit, with many movie fans believing he desperately wishes that Once Upon a Time *was* his final film.
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