Quentin Tarantino has always said he was only going to write and direct 10 movies.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was his ninth film, and he almost helmed a spin-off as his final film with Brad Pitt reprising his Oscar-winning role as stuntman Cliff Booth.
Despite changing his mind, Tarantino has penned a script that David Fincher will now direct at Netflix instead.
The latter filmmaker previously directed Pitt in Fight Club, Se7en and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and has made his last couple of films, Mank and The Killer, at the streamer with a short cinematic release prior.
Now, the title of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2 of sorts has been revealed.
In a recent interview with Sinners director Ryan Coogler, Deadline let the info slip.
The outlet said: “Quentin Tarantino creates these characters and mythologies so rich they beg for sequels he never had time to make. He was going to revive Brad Pitt’s stuntman character from Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood. Quentin decided to do something else for his final film. Now David Fincher will direct Pitt for Netflix what I’ve heard is called The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth, where the stuntman becomes a Hollywood studio fixer.”
A Hollywood fixer was someone paid to cover up the colourful private lives of Hollywood stars to protect their public image and thus the studio’s profitability. A famous real-life one was Eddie Mannix, who Josh Brolin played in the Coen Brothers 1950s-set Hail, Caesar!
A release date for The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth is TBC.
