David Fincher has revealed that he substantially trimmed Quentin Tarantino’s screenplay for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, the forthcoming sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Fincher removed 60 pages from Tarantino’s initial draft, which Fincher described as running approximately 230 pages in length and essentially functioning as two distinct stories.
In an interview with Empire magazine, Fincher explained his editorial approach to the material. He stated that he envisioned the film as a story centered around a bonfire, with emphasis on character interactions occurring in 1977 Hollywood rather than on plot mechanics. According to Fincher, the editing process involved identifying the intersection of what the star Brad Pitt, the director himself, and Tarantino wanted to accomplish with the project. The resulting cut film runs two hours and 20 minutes, slightly shorter than the original Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s runtime of two hours and 41 minutes.
Tarantino offered a different perspective on the material’s focus, suggesting the script emphasizes narrative structure more prominently. He characterized the story as drawing from the style of Elmore Leonard crime fiction rather than functioning as a casual hangout film, distinguishing it from the approach taken in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino previously adapted Leonard’s work for the 1997 film Jackie Brown.
The film marks another instance of Tarantino entrusting his screenplay to another director for adaptation. His past experiences with directorial interpretations of his scripts have been mixed—he famously left Oliver Stone’s 1994 Natural Born Killers due to extensive rewrites and stylistic changes, though he expressed satisfaction with Tony Scott’s 1993 adaptation of True Romance.
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, starring Brad Pitt alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, is scheduled for a two-week exclusive Imax theatrical run beginning Nov. 25, followed by its Netflix debut on Dec. 23.
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