Quentin Tarantino drops surprise teaser for Cliff Booth spinoff with David Fincher on Netflix
A one‑minute Super Bowl teaser unveiled Netflix’s next Brad Pitt vehicle, The Adventures of Cliff Booth, and confirmed a rare creative pairing that matters to film audiences now: quentin tarantino wrote the script while David Fincher directs. The short teased a period take on the stuntman’s life and left release timing unclear.
Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher join forces for the first time
The announcement marks the first time Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher have teamed up, with Tarantino stepping back from directing to serve as writer and Fincher taking the creative helm. Fincher is described in the context as known for meticulous visual storytelling, and Netflix has secured the project with plans that may include a theatrical rollout after streaming success becomes apparent.
Super Bowl teaser on February 8, 2026 showed gritty, period visuals
The one‑minute teaser aired during the Super Bowl on February 8, 2026 and showed Cliff Booth hanging at a bar, walking behind the scenes of a film set and driving a derby car on a dirt race track. Viewers saw Brad Pitt in period costume, his face weathered and scarred, performing dangerous stunts himself; the teaser’s stark lighting and meticulous framing were described as signaling Fincher’s fingerprint.
Brad Pitt, ensemble cast and the film’s time frame
Brad Pitt reprises his Oscar‑winning role as former stuntman Cliff Booth. The cast named in the context includes Timothy Olyphant, Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino and Yahya Abdul‑Mateen II. The Adventures of Cliff Booth is described as following Cliff Booth eight years after the events of quentin tarantino’s 2019 "Once Upon A Time … in Hollywood" and is said to pick up in the 1970s; while Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton is not expected to return, Booth is back in action.
Production scale, script role and release status
Tarantino wrote the script while stepping back from directing duties, and the production budget is reportedly substantial by Netflix standards. Netflix has not announced a release date for The Adventures of Cliff Booth, and the company is said to be contemplating a robust theatrical rollout after any streaming release.
How the original film’s ending connects and other headlines from the same context
The original film concluded with Booth and his principal performer and friend Rick Dalton revising history by killing the Manson family murderers on the night they would have killed Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent in 1969. The new Cliff Booth project is presented as exploring the stuntman’s life in the 1970s.
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