Fincher Cut 60 Pages From Tarantino’s Cliff Booth Script

David Fincher says he cut about 60 pages from Quentin Tarantino’s first draft of The Further MisAdventures of Cliff Booth, shaping the screenplay into a film that runs about two hours and 20 minutes. The sequel, starring Brad Pitt, is scheduled for an exclusive global IMAX run beginning November 25, 2026, followed by a Netflix debut on December 23, 2026. Fincher described the original draft as 230 pages and said it was essentially two movies. He discussed the revisions in an interview with Tarantino, the film’s writer, explaining that the process involved deciding which elements best served the interests of the director, writer and star. The reported page count and runtime figures come from Fincher’s account. The film continues the story of Cliff Booth, the stuntman Pitt played in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Set in 1977, eight years after the events of that 2019 film, the sequel casts Booth as a Hollywood fixer. Its reported runtime is about 21 minutes shorter than the predecessor, which ran two hours and 41 minutes. Tarantino characterized the sequel as a crime story with the flavor of an Elmore Leonard paperback, rather than a hangout movie. He contrasted it with Once...