Brad Pitt has finally confirmed the next chapter of Cliff Booth’s story — and it’s coming to Netflix, but without Quentin Tarantino in the director’s chair. In a recent interview with Deadline at the premiere for his latest movie, F1, the 61-year-old actor opened up about the highly anticipated follow-up to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, revealing that the upcoming film The Adventures of Cliff Booth will shoot this July with David Fincher stepping in as director. While fans may be surprised that Tarantino won’t be helming the project himself, Pitt was quick to explain the decision.

“This is something Quentin Tarantino wrote. It’s an episode, not really a sequel, of the character from Once Upon a Time. He didn’t want to direct it at this point, so our friend David Fincher stepped in. We’re gonna start in July, it’s gonna be really fun.”

The Adventures of Cliff Booth is set to be one of the most expensive streaming originals to date, with a reported $200 million budget. Quentin Tarantino will earn a cool $20 million for writing the script — his first for a film he isn’t directing since From Dusk Till Dawn back in 1996. The project marks a surprising turn for Tarantino, a filmmaker who’s long been outspoken about his disdain for streaming platforms and a passionate advocate for physical media. And yet, here he is — penning a spin-off for Netflix. Also joining Pitt in the cast are Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Elizabeth Debicki, and Scott Caan, though details about their roles and the film’s plot remain tightly under wraps.

Why Is Brad Pitt Making a ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Sequel?

Pitt’s original turn as Cliff Booth in Tarantino’s 2019 hit Once Upon a Time in Hollywood earned him an Oscar and a career resurgence. The film itself became Tarantino’s second highest-grossing movie ever, raking in $329.4 million worldwide and earning rave reviews for its alternative history take on late-1960s Los Angeles. The Cliff Booth movie is said to be based on Tarantino’s The Movie Critic script — a project he once teased as his final film before quietly shelving it. Whether The Adventures of Cliff Booth reworks that script or simply borrows elements is unclear, but this marks the first traditional sequel to one of Tarantino’s films.

The Adventures of Cliff Booth, starring Brad Pitt, begins production next month.

via Collider