Following the Super Bowl, Netflix unveiled the first glimpse of Brad Pitt’s comeback as stuntman Cliff Booth in “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” the follow-up to Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
The brief teaser, which included Cliff relaxing at a bar, touring the backstage areas of a movie shoot, and operating a derby car on an asphalt racetrack, was paired with vintage music.
The stuntman first ices his knee before running into the characters of Elizabeth Debicki and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who are both decked out in ostentatious Old Hollywood attire. Throughout the teaser, there were a few sly censoring gags that included shots of naked women, cigarettes, middle fingers, firearms, and people swearing.
The cool, endearing acrobatic double made its debut in Tarantino’s 2019 original film and is making a reappearance in David Fincher’s follow-up. Since the original “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director is still looking for his tenth and last movie to create, Tarantino chose to hand off directing duties to Fincher, even though he penned the script.
At the end of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Booth and his lead actor and friend, Rick Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), rewrote the narrative by murdering the Manson family murderers the night before they would have killed Steven Parent, Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski in 1969.
Booth is rejoining the battle alongside new characters portrayed by Scott Caan, Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, and JB Tadena, but DiCaprio’s Dalton is not anticipated to make a comeback in the spinoff. It has also been revealed that Timothy Olyphant will play James Stacy again in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
