David Fincher Cut 60 Pages of Tarantino’s ‘Cliff Booth’ Script: ‘The First Draft Was 230 Pages. It Was Essentially Two Movies’

David Fincher says he cut about 60 pages from Quentin Tarantino’s first draft of “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth”, which ran to 230 pages and, in Fincher’s view, contained enough material for two films. The upcoming sequel reunites Brad Pitt with his Oscar-winning character and shifts attention to Booth’s relationships and work in 1970s Hollywood.

Set in 1977, eight years after “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”, the film follows Booth as a Hollywood fixer and draws more on crime fiction, including the style of Elmore Leonard. Tarantino handed directing duties to Fincher after deciding the sequel should not be his tenth and potentially final film; Pitt helped bring Fincher on board. The finished film is about two hours and 20 minutes long, with an exclusive two-week global IMAX run scheduled from 25 November, followed by a Netflix premiere on 23 December.