Brad Pitt's <em>Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood</em> Spin-off Looks Like a Reality

After opening multiple cans of whoop-ass on the Manson Family in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Brad Pitt's Cliff Booth will reportedly return to open even more in a new spin-off. As of now, that movie may even have a title: The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth.

On April 21, in the middle of an interview with Sinners collaborators Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan, Deadline editor-in-chief Mike Fleming Jr. slipped that the title for the in-development Cliff Booth film is tentatively The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth. It will revolve around Booth's new career as a Hollywood studio fixer. (A Hollywood where Sharon Tate still lives, no less.)

"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," Fleming Jr. said to a potentially confused Jordan and Coogler.

Putting our strange way of learning this news aside, the title The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth is a good one. Like, really good. It's in sync with the bygone era of Hollywood that Tarantino's acclaimed movie from 2019 had major affection for, boasting the same kitschy sound of TV titles from that period. You can just imagine Continuing Adventures as a show slotted in primetime, competing for ratings against The Man From U.N.C.L.E., or I Dream of Jeannie, or Bonanza.

But what's a fixer, you ask? Well, in the old days of Hollywood when people didn't have Internet-connected phones with cameras on them, studio "fixers" like Eddie Mannix—and now, Cliff Booth—worked to cover up the dirty tracks left by misbehaving Hollywood talent. It's a good job for Cliff Booth. Now that he's done being Rick Dalton's stunt double, a movie where Cliff roves around Los Angeles in his baby blue Karman Ghia to wrangle errant stars out of whatever trouble they've wound up is exactly the kind of stuff that suits Booth's character. Count us in.

The news about a sequel to Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood first broke on April 1, when Deadline's Justin Kroll first reported that Tarantino and fellow filmmaking luminary David Fincher were joining forces on a spin-off sequel. (Their mutual connection was Brad Pitt, who starred in Fincher's unforgettable thriller Se7en and had Tarantino's personal approval to show the script to Fincher.) Meanwhile, Tarantino is putting together what is shaping up to be his final movie as a director, hence why Tarantino isn't helming Continuing Adventures himself. And if you're already wondering about how to watch it: Fincher's exclusivity to Netflix suggests that The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth will more than likely wind up a direct-to-streaming release.

Between Tarantino's scriptwriting, Fincher's eye, and Pitt reprising what is easily one of his greatest roles in his prolific career, there's plenty of reasons to be thrilled by the movie's prospects. What's more: Because Sharon Tate still lives in this alternate timeline, it'll be fascinating to see how this strange new Hollywood will take shape in a way that our bleaker reality never did.