Brad Pitt is getting into some sticky situations in his return as Cliff Booth for Netflix.
The streaming service shared new first-look images for director David Fincher‘s forthcoming feature The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. The film gets a two-week Imax run globally starting Nov. 25 before it begins streaming Dec. 23.
Quentin Tarantino penned the script for the new movie that also stars Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Matt Groove, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis and Karren Karagulian. Pitt reprises his role as stunt double Booth from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the 2019 Sony Pictures hit that Tarantino wrote and directed, with Leonardo DiCaprio co-starring in the initial movie as Western icon Rick Dalton.
Among the scenes teased in the new stills is Pitt donning goggles to maneuver a derby car on a dirt track. Another image shows Pitt and Debicki conversing at a bar, while a different shot features him on a tennis court with Debicki, Caan and Gugino.
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth is set in 1977, eight years after the events of the first film, and centers on Booth coming to terms with a very different Hollywood. Pitt and Ceán Chaffin serve as producers for the new movie.
“Let’s just say I know what it’s like to kill someone with a knife,” Pitt says in the trailer that was released online last month.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a major success, collecting $377 million at the worldwide box office and earning two Oscars from 10 nominations, including Pitt’s first-ever acting win. It remains well-regarded and helped fuel the film careers for such supporting players as Mikey Madison, Austin Butler, Sydney Sweeney and Margaret Qualley.
Tarantino has explained that he opted against directing the follow-up film because he did not want his next directorial effort, which he intends to be his last, to be a sequel.
“I love this script, but I’m still walking down the same ground I’ve already walked,” he said last year on the Church of Tarantino podcast. “It just kind of unenthused me.”
