Buckle up, folks: Cliff Booth is back. At Quentin Tarantino Once upon a time in HollywoodBrad Pitt took on the role of a brutal stuntman who – literally – changed the course of history (and earned Pitt an Oscar to boot). Now the character returns in The other misadventures of Cliff Bootha sort of sequel that marks a remarkable team of talents. Not only is Pitt back, with a new script from Tarantino himself – but the duo has this time tapped the great David Fincher as director. The new number 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.
Or OUATIH happy to let audiences spend time with Booth (and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton and Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate) in 1969, the 1977 follow-up has more momentum. “I don’t consider it a relaxing movie at all,” Tarantino says of Cliff Stand. “Once upon a time in Hollywood It was a relaxing movie, but you know you’re going to Cielo Drive (site of the Manson murders). He has that strength, so I didn’t need a lot of intrigue. This scenario was very different. Expect something reminiscent of the feeling of, say, Jackie Brown. “To me it had the taste of an Elmore Leonard paperback: a detective story paperback feel,” he teases.
For Fincher, that was a big part of what attracted him. “I liked the idea of it being a bonfire story,” says the director. “It wasn’t so much about the plot as it was about how the participants faced off in the back streets of Hollywood in 1977.” He had plenty of material to work with, thanks to Tarantino’s expansive script. “The first draft I read was 230 pages. It was basically two films,” says Fincher, noting that he cut 60 pages, resulting in a film that was about 2 hours and 20 minutes long. “Somewhere in there was the Venn diagram of what Brad wanted to do, what I wanted to do, what Quentin wanted to do. Not ‘want to do,’ but the areas we would focus on.” Who’s ready to come back to The Booth?
Read EmpireThe full exclusive interview with Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher – talking about their long-awaited team-up on The Other Mid-Adventures of Cliff Booth – in the Dune: Part Three issue, on sale Thursday October 22. Pre-order a copy online here. The Other Mid-Adventures of Cliff Booth comes to IMAX starting November 25 and streaming on Netflix starting December 23.
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