Tarantino Shows 17 Minutes of Fincher's Cliff Booth Film, Set in 1977
Quentin Tarantino showed the first 17 minutes of “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth” at AFI Fest. He appeared at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood after a screening of “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”
David Fincher directs, and Brad Pitt returns as Cliff Booth. The new film moves from the original’s 1969 timeline to 1977.
Cliff Booth is a fixer for Hollywood’s great and, sometimes, not so good, when he is not earning his keep bartending or as a projectionist.
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The day-job stack is the good joke: Cliff Booth is a fixer when he is not bartending or working as a projectionist. Heroism as a side gig.
Tarantino said he loved the Cliff Booth character and could see a series of paperbacks built around him. The premise is already shaped like one: a hero who gets involved with this adventure or that adventure.