Viewers got a surprise first look at The Adventures of Cliff Booth during Super Bowl LIX. The sequel to 2019’s smash hit Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, as the title would imply, will follow Brad Pitt‘s Cliff Booth, stuntman, handyman, and alleged wife-murderer in a new escapade in mid-century Los Angeles. The film is set to be released some time later this year.
In the new trailer, Cliff is decoupled from his onetime partner Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), but has a new partner in crime in the form of Elizabeth Debicki. What exactly they’re getting up to is unspecified, but Rick is pretty sure it’s a “good story.” In fact, it’s too good a story for all the kids and sensitive types watching the biggest football game of the year, so Netflix has made sure it’s been sanitized for our protection, censoring all the substance use, cursing, and copious nudity with faux film scratches, possibly as a partial homage to Pitt’s rogue projectionist Tyler Durden in Fight Club…which was also helmed by The Adventures of Cliff Booth‘s David Fincher. However, despite the censorship, we still get some excellent 1970s action scored to a cover of the classic Peter Gunn theme.
What Do We Know About ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’?
Unlike its predecessor, which was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino,
The Adventures of Cliff Booth will be released in select theaters and on Netflix later this year. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.