Title Revealed For Tarantino and David Fincher's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Sequel
It was a big surprise when it was announced that Netflix was going to be producing a sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Tarantino writing the script and David Fincher directing.
We now have a title for the film, revealed in passing in an article from Variety about a new Brad Pitt project. The spinoff film will be titled The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth, and Pitt is returning to reprisde his role.
It was previously revealed that this next chapter is shaping up to be a unique continuation and it was explained:
"This probably should not be thought of as a sequel. This should be thought of more of a follow-up that's connected to but not the same as — the example that was cited to me was, think about how A Big Sleep, the Raymond Chandler adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart, is in the same world as Farewell, My Lovely, the 1975 Robert Mitchum movie, but it's [a] different actor, different directors, different time in the storyline. They are different, they are not really sequels, they are the further adventures of [Cliff]."
So, it will be more of a spiritual successor or standalone spinoff, with Cliff Booth at the center of a new story. That story is set in 1977, eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It was also said:
"The only other important information I have learned, that I think is confirmed, is that the movie takes place in 1977, which is roughly eight years after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, so a different time in Cliff's life."
With the original film covering just three days in 1969, this jump forward opens the door to a very different version of Cliff. I imagine Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) is out of the picture, and we’re catching up with Cliff in a new phase of life, older, possibly more jaded, and maybe even a little crazier.
There’s no official synopsis, no word from Netflix or the creatives beyond the information I’ve shared here, and no confirmation on whether this new story is connected to Tarantino’s previously abandoned The Movie Critic, which also had Pitt attached at one point.
I’m excited to see how this film project turns out!