Tarantino Screens 17 Minutes of Cliff Booth Follow-Up

Quentin Tarantino screened the first 17 minutes of The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth during an AFI Fest event, giving audiences an early look at the follow-up to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The preview followed a screening of the 2019 film and a question-and-answer session with Tarantino at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Tarantino wrote the new film, while David Fincher is directing. Brad Pitt returns as Cliff Booth, the stuntman from the original film. The story moves from the late 1960s setting of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to 1977, with Booth working as a Hollywood fixer. The film’s published logline describes Booth taking on problems for people in the entertainment industry, using abilities it characterizes as occasionally extralegal. It says he earns money bartending and working as a projectionist as well as solving situations for Hollywood figures. The preview’s opening footage was not enough to establish the full direction of the plot, according to an account of the screening. The event began with a screening of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, followed by a discussion moderated by Jacqueline Coley. Tarantino introduced the original film and spoke...