More news about David Fincher‘s Cliff Booth spin-off has come out, and now additional cast members are being announced to star opposite Brad Pitt.
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The film, which will be released on Netflix, serves as follow-up to Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It will see Pitt revive his role as protagonist Cliff Booth.
According to an exclusive report by Deadline, Carla Gugino will co-star opposite Pitt – and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Elizabeth Debicki and Scott Caan are also on board. Fincher will be directing the film, although the script will be written by Tarantino.
Currently details of the upcoming film is under wraps, however filming is set to begin later this year. According to a report by Playlist, the film likely has a $200million budget, with Tarantino receiving $20million for his screenplay.
The original film, written and directed by Tarantino, followed the adventures of a fading TV star (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt man (Pitt) in an alternative vision of 1960s Hollywood. The film was a critical and box office success, making $329.4million and becoming the director’s second highest grossing movie after 2012’s Django Unchained.
The upcoming Booth film would be an unusual step for the Pulp Fiction filmmaker on a few counts: the last time he wrote a film that he didn’t direct was 1996’s From Dusk Til Dawn; and he has been a vocal critic of streamers such as Netflix, famously preferring physical media and film projection for watching movies. It would also be the first traditional sequel to one of his directed movies: Kill Bill was split into two parts but is considered one story.
In other Netflix-related news, details have emerged about an abandoned David Lynch project, which was commissioned by Netflix but delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March, Naomi Watts said the filmmaker , who passed away in January, was planning more projects during their last meeting together, while Netflix chief Ted Sarandos revealed in a tribute post shortly after his death that he pitched them a limited series “filled with mystery and risks”.
A new interview sheds light on what that might have been. Peter Deming, Lynch’s collaborator on many projects including Twin Peaks: The Return, spoke to The Film Stage about the shelved project, titled Unrecorded Night.
“Shortly before he passed––well, like a year, because it was pre-COVID––there was Unrecorded Night, which he had written. I’d read it, and we actually went on one scout, looking at locations” he recalled. “Then COVID hit, so everything shut down and it never rekindled”.