Summary
- Netflix released the second trailer for Brad Pitt’s return as Cliff Booth on November 6.
- David Fincher directs Quentin Tarantino’s screenplay, with the story set in Los Angeles in 1977.
- Erik Messerschmidt is director of photography.
- The film opens in IMAX on November 25 and comes to Netflix on December 23, 2026.
Brad Pitt is back as Cliff Booth in the second official trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino.
Netflix released the new trailer on November 6, 2026, offering another glimpse of Los Angeles in 1977, eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. The film will first have an IMAX run before reaching the streaming service.
Cliff Booth has a different job in Hollywood now
The character we knew as a stuntman and Rick Dalton’s trusted companion has moved on. In 1977, he occasionally works as a bartender or projectionist, but his real specialty is fixing problems for people in the movie business — even when the solutions take him outside the rules.
Talent agent Karen Crosby (Elizabeth Debicki) approaches him on behalf of television star Charlie Peters (Scott Caan), a performer determined to do his own stunts. Their circle also includes Charlie’s wife Toni (Carla Gugino), former football champion Roderick “Hot Rod” Harrison (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), and the Verdusco brothers, criminals stirring up trouble across the city.
The official title of the Cliff Booth follow-up was revealed during the summer. The latest material offers a clearer sense of its direction: less a fairy tale about old Hollywood and more a crime story built around someone with a talent for making problems disappear.
David Fincher’s take on Los Angeles in 1977
In Netflix’s new feature, Fincher says he wanted to explore who Cliff has become eight years after his first appearance. He cites the 1975 film Shampoo as a creative touchstone for how it captures a particular moment and the unusual people who populate Los Angeles.
The director argues that this is not simply a stuntman story, or even primarily a story about the movie industry. To him, it is a story about the city itself. That approach puts Cliff among agents, television celebrities, and underworld figures whose interests are bound to collide.
Cinematography and the creative team
Erik Messerschmidt, ASC, Fincher’s frequent collaborator and an Academy Award winner for Mank, is director of photography. Donald Graham Burt is production designer, Kirk Baxter is editor, Trish Summerville designs the costumes, and Ren Klyce oversees sound design.
For cinematographers and filmmakers, the intriguing combination is a Tarantino character and screenplay filtered through Fincher’s meticulous direction. The trailer’s dim interiors, warm palette, and carefully controlled framing offer a sense of its period atmosphere, without confirming the camera or lens package used for the film.
IMAX and Netflix release dates
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth is scheduled for an exclusive two-week global IMAX engagement beginning November 25, 2026, before arriving on Netflix on December 23, 2026. A specific Greek cinema schedule has not been confirmed. The official Netflix film page carries the service’s current details.
What we think
What makes this return appealing is that Cliff Booth is not simply being brought back to replay the moments that made him a favorite. We meet him eight years later, in a changed Hollywood, giving Fincher room to build a story of his own without reproducing Tarantino’s first film.
From a filmmaking perspective, Messerschmidt’s involvement is another reason to study the trailer. The way spaces are lit and Pitt is positioned within the frame suggests that the period atmosphere is doing narrative work. And Fincher’s description of this as an “LA story” is much more compelling to us than the idea of a sequel built mainly around references to the original.
