Brad Pitt is back as Cliff Booth. Netflix has released a new trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, the standalone sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and it is one of the most-discussed trailers of the weekend. The film is directed by David Fincher and written by Quentin Tarantino, reuniting the stuntman with the two filmmakers who made him famous.
The new trailer, released on November 7, shows more of Cliff Booth’s backstory in his new role as a Hollywood fixer, according to trade coverage — caught between murder and mayhem in 1977, eight years after the events of Tarantino’s 2019 film. Timothy Olyphant returns as Western actor James Stacy, alongside Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Elizabeth Debicki.
A sequel eight years later
The film picks up in 1977, eight years after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which Tarantino has described as his love letter to old Hollywood. Cliff Booth, Pitt’s stunt double turned fixer, is now the centre of the story — and the trailer’s explanation of why Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton is not in the film has already become a talking point among fans, according to coverage of the new footage.
Fincher takes the director’s chair from Tarantino, who created the character and wrote the screenplay. It is a rare handover: a sequel to a Tarantino film directed by another filmmaker, with Tarantino’s script as the bridge. The combination — Fincher’s precision, Tarantino’s dialogue, Pitt’s star power — makes it one of the most anticipated films of the holiday season.
IMAX first, then Netflix
Netflix is giving the film a two-week exclusive run in IMAX theatres globally starting November 25, 2026, before it debuts on the streaming service on December 23, 2026. The IMAX window is the story in itself: a Netflix film getting a full theatrical exclusive, in the biggest format available, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The November 25 IMAX opening puts Cliff Booth directly into the Thanksgiving frame, alongside Disney’s Hexed and Universal’s Focker In-Law — a crowded holiday weekend in which a Fincher-Tarantino reunion, in IMAX, is a very different proposition from the family films around it. The December 23 Netflix debut then gives it a Christmas-week streaming launch.
Why it matters
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood earned Pitt the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Cliff Booth has become one of the most beloved characters of his career. A standalone sequel, eight years later, with Fincher directing and Tarantino writing, is the kind of project that does not come around often — and the new trailer, released on the busiest box-office weekend of the autumn, puts it at the centre of the holiday film conversation. The IMAX run starts November 25; the Netflix premiere follows on December 23.
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