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Quentin Tarantino Surprises Fans With 17 Minutes of ‘The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth’ at AFI Fest
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In Short: Tarantino introduced the screening by saying, 'Well, I could talk a little bit about The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, or I could show you the first 17 minutes,' opting for the latter.
Quentin Tarantino surprised the audience at AFI Fest in Los Angeles by screening the first 17 minutes of 'The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,' a sequel to his 2019 film 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.'
Brad Pitt, who won an Oscar for his role as Cliff Booth in the original film, revises his character in the sequel. The film picks up in 1977, eight years after the original's 1969 timeline.
In the new footage, Booth is no longer a stuntman but works as a projectionist at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, a theater Tarantino owns in real life.
Tarantino reflected on the decision to revisit Cliff Booth, noting that he loved the character and the way Brad Pitt played him. He described Booth as a 'paperback hero' who gets involved in various adventures.
The 17-minute preview showed Booth as a kind of shady bag man and fixer, with a promising relationship developing between Booth and his father, played by Peter Weller.
Tarantino also revealed that he had never seen 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' on Imax or at the Chinese Theatre, where the screening took place.
After the screening, Tarantino participated in a lively Q&A session, further engaging the audience.
The film is set to release in IMAX on November 25 and stream on Netflix on December 23.
The Hollywood Reporter noted that Tarantino's original script was so long that it was 'essentially two movies,' leading David Fincher to cut 60 pages from the script.
Tarantino emphasized his commitment to the story and its characters, saying, 'I’ve got nothing to do but just invest in this mythology.'
Background
Tarantino introduced the screening by saying, 'Well, I could talk a little bit about The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, or I could show you the first 17 minutes,' opting for the latter.
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth is an upcoming comedy-drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Tarantino, Ceán Chaffin, David Heyman, Stacey Sher, and Brad Pitt, it is a standalone sequel and spin-off to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), with Pitt and Timothy Olyphant reprising their respective roles as stunt double Cliff Booth and Western actor James Stacy.
What's confirmed
- “Well, I could talk a little bit about The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, or I could show you the first 17 minutes,” Tarantino said at the end of his special-event Q&A session at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
- Quentin Tarantino surprised the crowd during a Q&A and screening of his 10-time Oscar-nominated Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on Friday night at AFI Fest in Los Angeles by screening the first 17 minutes of its sequel The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.
- The 63-year-old filmmaker surprised the audience at AFI Fest on Friday night (October 23) by screening the first 17 minutes of The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, the upcoming sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- “I tend to not remember good reviews of mine in quotes; I kind of remember the bad reviews in quotes, but I don’t really remember good reviews of mine in quotes. But one quote that I do remember somebody writing about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, it was like, ‘This seems like the first world Quentin Tarantino has ever created that he would like to live in,’ and there is that aspect,” he told the crowd.
- The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth is releasing in IMAX on Nov. 25 and streaming Dec. 23 on Netflix.
- And he’s further entertained and intrigued when he meets other characters in Charlie’s world, from his knowing wife Toni (Carla Gugino) to pro football champion turned screen star Roderick “Hot Rod” Harrison (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II).
- Pitt returns as Cliff Booth and he’s joined in the film by Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Matt Groove, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis and Karren Karagulian.
- No Critics, Just Fans After the novel was announced only a matter of days ago we have the first trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by David Fincher.
- "I asked Burt Reynolds to play George Spahn, and he said yes, and we became friendly.... And then he passed away before we could make the film. But we did get to rehearse with him, and we did a script reading with him. The last performance Burt Reynolds ever gave was as George Spahn in that script reading."
What's still developing
- When we left Cliff Booth at the end of “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” he was coming off of a sojourn in Italy to double his pal Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio); as the new film begins in June 1977, his primary connection to the film industry is a job as a projectionist at the New Beverly Cinema. (A fun in-joke that got a big laugh from the AFI Fest audience, most of whom were probably well aware that Tarantino now owns that theater.) Booth’s real profession seems to be as a kind of shady bag man and fixer, though the 17 minutes we saw at the Chinese wasn’t enough to give a strong sense of where the plot will go.
- For the 900 or so Tarantino fans who packed the house, just seeing the director’s 2019 crowd-pleaser on the huge Chinese screen followed by a lively Tarantino Q&A would have been enough — but then Quentin had a surprise for the audience.
- Here's what screened, what he said about why Cliff is back, and when the rest of us get to see it.
- This team-up is sure to be a winner with Tarantino’s words and Fincher’s visuals.
- "Whatever it is you're thinking, it's not what you think."
- This is the official new name for this ( different from the Super Bowl spot ), a spin-off from Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood featuring the same character.
- If we go by the old screenwriting rule of thumb of each page equating to a minute of screentime, that’s three hours and 50 minutes.
- The filmmaker famously adapted one of Leonard’s novels, “Rum Punch,” into his beloved 1997 crime film, “Jackie Brown.” Fincher, for his part, said he found the paperback crime novel quality of Tarantino’s script particularly appealing.