New Trailer Reveals Tarantino's Cliff Booth Sequel Under Fincher

Netflix has released a new trailer for David Fincher's The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, the Quentin Tarantino-scripted continuation of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, and it finally begins to reveal the contours of the plot. The film opens in IMAX on November 25 for a two-week engagement. It arrives on the streaming platform on December 24.

Brad Pitt returns to his Academy Award-winning role as Cliff Booth. The setting has moved to 1977, in what Netflix calls "a very different Hollywood." The new trailer strikes a tone that observers have compared, seemingly not inaccurately, to an Elmore Leonard paperback — crime fiction with a wry, sunlit edge.

The project occupies a strange place in Tarantino's career. While he does everything possible not to direct his tenth and potentially final film, including prepping the stage play The Popinjay Cavaliers — an 1830s Europe-set swashbuckling comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen — his latest contribution to cinema arrives through Fincher's camera rather than his own.

Who joins Pitt on screen?

The cast, beyond Pitt, includes Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Matt Groove, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis and Karren Karagulian. Pitt produces alongside Ceán Chaffin, his longtime collaborator on Fincher's previous films.

The creative team reads like a Fincher regulars' reunion. Erik Messerschmidt, ASC, serves as director of photography. Donald Graham Burt is production designer. Kirk Baxter, ACE, edits, with casting by Laray Mayfield. Trish Summerville designs costumes, Ren Klyce handles sound design, and Dave Macomber coordinates stunts.

What does the release strategy change?

The two-week IMAX run carries a notable wrinkle: Netflix will actually report the grosses. The streaming giant, historically opaque about theatrical numbers, has committed to publishing box office results for this engagement. That makes the film a test case for how a Netflix theatrical window performs in full public view.

Why the Elmore Leonard comparison matters

Tarantino's script has long been compared to Leonard's crime fiction, and the new trailer appears to confirm it. The plot details remain scarce — Netflix's synopsis runs to a single paragraph — but the 1977 setting and the trailer's texture suggest a laid-back, danger-tinged tour through a Hollywood already shedding its golden-age skin.

Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role in 2020. The character, a stuntman with a violent past, now anchors a film written by one director and shot by another — a handoff that itself is the story's most unusual fact.

Whether the pairing of Tarantino's pen and Fincher's precision yields a hit will become clear in stages: first in IMAX on November 25, then for the global subscriber audience on December 24.