Old thread didn’t make it, so we start anew. Here is the trailer.
YouTube’s blocking the video for some reason, but I’ll repeat here was I said in the old thread. Pretty darn excited about this. I’d been hoping for a while that Tarantino would return to the style of his more grounded early movies, after his long “pastiche period” from Kill Bill, Vol. 1 through The Hateful Eight (which, to be clear, I really enjoy too). Once upon a Time was just what I was looking for, and I’m now looking forward to spending more time in that universe. It’ll be interesting to see Tarantino’s script directed by another (the first time since True Romance?), but I love some Fincher too, and I think they could be a good fit for each other. Can’t wait to find out.
The video rapidly got taken down. I guess it was a leak, but I’m sure it’ll be released officially soon enough.
Okay, for real this time.
Excerpt from an upcoming Empire feature on the movie.
Buckle up, people: Cliff Booth is back. In Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Brad Pitt stepped into the role of a rough-and-ready stuntman who – literally – changed the course of history (and earned Pitt an Oscar to boot). Now, the character returns in The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth, a sequel-of-sorts that marks a remarkable talent team-up. Not only is Pitt back, with a fresh screenplay from Tarantino himself – but the duo tapped the great David Fincher as director this time around. The new issue of Empire features the first joint interview with Tarantino and Fincher talking about the film – and they promise a different kind of Cliff Booth (mis)adventure.
Where OUATIH revelled in letting the audience spend time with Booth (and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton, and Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate) in 1969, the 1977-set follow-up has more momentum. “I don’t think of it as a hangout movie at all,” says Tarantino of Cliff Booth. “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was a hangout movie, but you know you’re going to Cielo Drive (site of the Manson murders). It has this force, thus I didn’t need a lot of plot. This script was very different.” Expect something that harks back to the feeling of, say, Jackie Brown. “To me, it had the flavour of an Elmore Leonard paperback: a crime-story paperback feel,” he teases.
For Fincher, that was much of the appeal. “I liked the idea that it’s a story around a bonfire,” the director says. “It wasn’t about the plot as much as it was about how the participants collided with one another in the back alleys of Hollywood in 1977.” He had plenty of material to work with, courtesy of Tarantino’s expansive screenplay. “The first draft I read was 230 pages. It was essentially two movies,” says Fincher, noting that he cut 60 pages – resulting in a movie around 2 hours and 20 minutes long. “Somewhere in there was the Venn diagram of what Brad wanted to do, what I want to do, what Quentin wanted to do. Not “want to do”, but the areas we would focus on.” Who’s ready to get back in the Booth?
Meanwhile, Fincher is letting his Netflix deal expire, and Page Six reports that it’s because he clashed with the streamer about budget on CLIFF BOOTH.