He's back — only now, the suits of late-'70s Hollywood have a very different kind of problem on their hands. Netflix dropped the first full official trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth on Monday, and it's safe to say the wait was worth it.
The Dream Team Behind the Camera
Directed by David Fincher and written by Quentin Tarantino, the film is a continuation of the story Tarantino began in his Oscar-winning Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It is, by any measure, a cinematic event: it's also the first Netflix movie to be released in IMAX theatres around the world. The pairing of two of Hollywood's most exacting filmmakers — Tarantino's razor-sharp dialogue meeting Fincher's ice-cold precision — has had cinephiles quietly losing their composure since the project was first confirmed.
Pitt approached Fincher — with whom he had previously worked on Seven (1995), Fight Club (1999), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) — to direct the film. Given that history, it feels less like a studio arrangement and more like old friends settling an unfinished score.
A Different Hollywood, a Dirtier Game
Set in 1977, eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the new film finds Booth no longer working as a stuntman, but now serving as a fixer for powerful people. Hollywood will always have problems — problems that can only be solved by someone with Cliff's unique, occasionally extralegal, abilities. When he's not earning his keep bartending or working as a projectionist, Cliff Booth is a fixer, solving situations for Hollywood's great and sometimes not-so-good.
Per the official synopsis, Booth gets curious when he receives a call from talent agent Karen Crosby (Elizabeth Debicki), on behalf of her client, TV megastar Charlie Peters (Scott Caan) — a man known for doing his own stunts. Timothy Olyphant also returns, reprising his role as Western actor James Stacy, while the ensemble cast further features Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Matt Groove, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis, Karren Karagulian, and Holt McCallany.
"Only this time it's 1977, and it's a very different Hollywood." — Netflix, on the trailer's release
Notably, while Leonardo DiCaprio is not returning as Hollywood star Rick Dalton, Timothy Olyphant will reprise his original role of James Stacy.
The Oscar-Winning Role Pitt Was Born to Revisit
Brad Pitt reprises his Oscar-winning role as Cliff Booth, the stuntman first introduced in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. That performance earned Pitt the Best Supporting Actor award, and the character — charming, dangerous, and utterly unflappable — became one of the defining screen creations of recent memory. Returning to him now, with seven years' distance and one of cinema's great stylists at the helm, feels like genuinely exciting business.
Where Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood reworked the events of 1969 as a Hollywood fairytale, Netflix describes Cliff's next chapter as a crime story involving violence, ambition, and desire. The tone shift is deliberate — and the trailer suggests Fincher has leant into the grime and moral murk of the era with characteristic relish.
When and Where to Watch
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth will debut for a two-week exclusive engagement in IMAX theatres globally on 25th November 2026, before debuting on Netflix on 23rd December 2026. Originally, Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew had been earmarked for this special IMAX release, but Netflix pushed that film to February, where it will now get a full wide theatrical release around the world. The slot, it turns out, was worth saving.
"Whatever it is you're thinking, it ain't what you think." — Cliff Booth, in the trailer
So — whether you're making it to an IMAX screen on Thanksgiving weekend or settling in on the sofa on Christmas Eve, it looks very much as though Brad Pitt is about to become essential viewing once again.
