David Fincher Cut 60 Pages of Tarantino’s ‘Cliff Booth’ Script: ‘The First Draft Was 230 Pages. It Was Essentially Two Movies’
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The new interview adds detail on how David Fincher reshaped Quentin Tarantino’s screenplay for the upcoming Cliff Booth film: he removed roughly 60 pages from a 230-page first draft, which he said was essentially two movies. Fincher said he was drawn to the characters and their relationships in 1970s Hollywood, while Tarantino described the script as having the feel of an Elmore Leonard crime paperback.
Brad Pitt reprises his Oscar-winning role as Booth, now a Hollywood fixer in 1977, eight years after “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”. Tarantino passed the directing role to Fincher after deciding the sequel should not be his tenth and potentially final film; Pitt helped bring Fincher on board. The finished film runs about two hours and 20 minutes and is scheduled for a two-week global IMAX run from 25 November, before its Netflix premiere on 23 December.
- Fincher cut about 60 pages from Tarantino’s 230-page first draft.
- The film follows Cliff Booth as a Hollywood fixer in 1977.
- It is scheduled for IMAX from 25 November and Netflix on 23 December.