At long last, Netflix has shared the first official trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, their highly anticipated standalone sequel and spin-off to Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which sees Brad Pitt reprise his Oscar-winning role as the titular stuntman.
The trailer packs an ample amount of action and comedy alongside several callbacks to the 2019 film, including a reference to Booth's Bruce Lee story and an update on the whereabouts of his partner-in-crime Rick Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the original film). As far as we know, DiCaprio reportedly declined a cameo in the sequel, and the trailer wastes no time letting us know what has become of his iconic character.
The film's full synopsis reads, "Murder, blackmail, theft, extortion — just another summer in Hollywood. It’s 1977, eight years since Cliff Booth (Pitt) encountered the Manson family in Quentin Tarantino’s parallel history of 1969, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. In The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, directed by David Fincher from a new script by Tarantino, the fairytale is over. Los Angeles no longer needs a hippie-slaying stuntman the way it did. But 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 as a projectionist, Cliff Booth is a fixer — solving situations for Hollywood’s great and, sometimes, not so good.
He’s curious when he gets 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. And he’s further entertained and intrigued when he meets other characters in Charlie’s world, from his knowing wife Toni (Carla Gugino) to pro football champion turned screen star Roderick ‘Hot Rod’ Harrison (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). Then there are the Verdusco brothers (Matt Groove and JB Tadena), mysterious gangsters causing mayhem across the city. What was once a fairytale is now a crime story — a cocktail of violence, ambition, and desire that could only happen in L.A."
The ensemble cast features Brad Pitt (Cliff Booth), Elizabeth Debicki (Karen Crosby), Scott Caan (Charlie Peters), Carla Gugino (Toni Peters), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Roderick 'Hot Rod' Harrison), Peter Weller, Matt Groove, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis, Karren Karagulian, Holt McCallany, Timothy Olyphant (James Stacy), Barry Livingston, and Lauren Glazier.
Tarantino will also publish a novelization of the spin-off, titled The Adventures of Cliff Booth, which is expected to hit shelves on December 8.
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth arrives in IMAX theaters on November 25 for an exclusive two-week run, followed by a global streaming debut on Netflix on December 23.
Watch the official trailer below:
Murder, blackmail, theft, extortion — just another summer in Hollywood. It’s 1977, eight years since Cliff Booth (Pitt) encountered the Manson family in Quentin Tarantino’s parallel history of 1969, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. In The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, directed by David Fincher from a new script by Tarantino, the fairytale is over. Los Angeles no longer needs a hippie-slaying stuntman the way it did. But 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 as a projectionist, Cliff Booth is a fixer — solving situations for Hollywood’s great and, sometimes, not so good.
He’s curious when he gets 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. And he’s further entertained and intrigued when he meets other characters in Charlie’s world, from his knowing wife Toni (Carla Gugino) to pro football champion turned screen star Roderick ‘Hot Rod’ Harrison (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). Then there are the Verdusco brothers (Matt Groove and JB Tadena), mysterious gangsters causing mayhem across the city. What was once a fairytale is now a crime story — a cocktail of violence, ambition, and desire that could only happen in L.A.