Quentin Tarantino surprised AFI Fest with 17 minutes of Cliff Booth’s next adventure

Quentin Tarantino surprised an AFI Fest audience in Los Angeles on October 23 by screening the first 17 minutes of The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. The reveal gave fans their first public look at the follow-up to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Brad Pitt back in the role that won him an Oscar.

The footage came after a screening of the 2019 film and a question-and-answer session at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre. Tarantino offered to talk about the new movie or show its opening instead; he chose the screen, according to Variety.

Why Tarantino returned to Cliff Booth

He also recalled a review that described Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as the first world he had created that he would like to live in. Tarantino linked that feeling to his attachment to Booth and the film’s setting, according to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

What happens in the Cliff Booth follow-up

The story moves to 1977, eight years after the original film’s 1969 setting. Its published logline casts Booth as a Hollywood fixer who also works as a bartender and projectionist. The Hollywood Reporter said the preview showed him working in a cinema projection booth and handling other business on the side.

That is a shift for a character audiences first met as the stunt double and sidekick to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton. Pitt’s return places Booth at the centre of this film, with Fincher directing a Tarantino script rather than Tarantino directing it himself.

When the film is due out

The film is scheduled for an IMAX theatrical release on November 25, followed by a Netflix release on December 23, Deadline reported. The announced cast also includes Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Peter Weller.