The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel to filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood, has been shooting in Los Angeles with Fight Club director David Fincher at the helm and with Brad Pitt returning as now retired Hollywood stuntman Cliff Booth. While The Adventures of Cliff Booth is scheduled to stream on Netflix, it is unclear whether the film will get a theatrical release, something Tarantino has felt strongly about with his previous movie projects.
However, with Fincher attached to the upcoming movie, that could change since Fincher already has a relationship with the streaming giant, having executive produced the animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots, and directing the hitman thriller The Killer with Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Charles Parnell, both for Netflix. Quentin Tarantino also has a previous relationship with Netflix, as the company handled the streaming rights for his theatrically released epic western The Hateful Eight. The Adventures of Cliff Booth marks the first film to be written by, but not directed by Tarantino, since the 1996 vampire action horror From Dusk Till Dawn.
Brad Pitt returns as the titular lead in The Adventures of Cliff Booth and set photos have begun to emerge on social media of Pitt’s return as Booth. In the images, Pitt is sporting a different hairstyle than his character wore in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. This makes sense because Cliff Booth takes place about eight years after the events of the first film.
Written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by David Fincher, The Adventures of Cliff Booth also stars Holt McCallany, Carla Gugino, Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Corey Fogelmanis and JB Tadena.
Youtube creator German in Venice drove out to Highland Park, California, where The Adventures of Cliff Booth had been shooting for about a week. The popular filmmaker captured video of the streets of Highland Park dressed up in period props and set designs representing the late 1970s. That includes the Highland Theater dressed up as the Beverly Cinema and a bar made up as Benson Hardware. The faux Beverly Cinema has movie posters for blaxploitation films Which Way is Up and Soul Brothers Die Hard. Which Way is Up is an actual 1977 comedy starring Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee and Margaret Avery. However Soul Brothers Die Hard is a fictional movie whose star, “Rodrick ‘Hot Rod’ Harrison,” played by actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, factors into the story line of the movie in some way.
