David Fincher's 'Cliff Booth' film with Brad Pitt begins filming; set photos leaked online

 

David Fincher's next, a sequel to Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon A Time in Hollywood', has begun filming. Titled 'The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth,' the film will have as it main focus the character played by Brad Pitt in the original. Set photos of the actor in costume, with a noticeably different hairdo than what he had last time, have been leaked online. 

 

Earlier, at the premiere of his upcoming racing drama F1: The Movie, Pitt had said the film is more of an "episode" in Cliff Booth's life than a sequel, per se. "This is something that Quentin wrote. Not really a sequel but an episode of the character from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but he (Tarantino) didn't want to direct it at this point. And so our mutual friend David Fincher stepped in to direct it. We are doing it for Netflix, and we start filming in July. It should be really good fun," said the Fight Club actor in an interview with Deadline.

 

Aside from Pitt, the new cast members include Elizabeth Debicki ('Tenet"), Carla Gugino ("Watchmen"), Scott Caan ("Ocean's Eleven"), and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II ("Aquaman").

 

It's not yet clear whether the project, which is expected to be a direct-to-Netflix release, would see the return of Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton too; if it happens, it would be a treat for fans of the 2019 film directed by Tarantino.

 

 

Tarantino later expanded the story — an "alternate history" take on the tragedy involving filmmaker Roman Polanski and girlfriend Sharon Tate — in its novelisation of the same name.

 

As per reports, the film's script has a connection to a recently-dropped project that Tarantino initially announced as his tenth film, titled 'The Movie Critic'. Apparently, the script that caught Fincher and Pitt's attention is an evolved version of what eventually became 'The Movie Critic'. The story is said to be an exploration of Cliff Booth's stand-alone adventures.

The reunion of Fincher and Pitt adds further excitement considering the acclaimed previous collaborations of the director and actor, namely Se7en, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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