‘Cliff Booth’ Teaser: Brad Pitt Returns in First Footage From David Fincher’s Tarantino Sequel, Unveiled During the Super Bowl

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Feb 9

Brad Pitt’s Oscar-winning stuntman is back — and the surprise Super Bowl teaser signals a slick, Fincher-driven evolution of Tarantino’s Hollywood universe.

Netflix delivered one of the Super Bowl’s most unexpected film moments by debuting the first teaser for The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Brad Pitt returning to his Oscar-winning role as the effortlessly cool stuntman Cliff Booth.

The brief teaser, cut to retro music, offers a fragmented but evocative glimpse into Booth’s next chapter. Pitt is seen nursing an injured knee at a bar, drifting through the margins of a film set, and tearing across a dirt race track behind the wheel of a derby car. The imagery leans hard into vintage Hollywood texture — cigarettes, guns, middle fingers, and fleeting nudity — all partially obscured by cheeky censorship gags that flash across the screen.

One of the teaser’s most pointed moments comes at the end: Cliff Booth calmly placing an Oscar on his desk, a knowing wink to Pitt’s Best Supporting Actor win for the role in 2020. It’s both self-aware and myth-making, reinforcing Booth’s status as a cinematic icon who now exists beyond the film that introduced him.

While Tarantino directed the original film, David Fincher takes the helm this time, working from a script written by Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino has long stated that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was not his final word on these characters, but he has chosen to focus his own directing efforts on a still-unannounced tenth and final film. Handing the reins to Fincher marks a notable creative handoff — one that blends Tarantino’s dialogue and mythology with Fincher’s controlled precision.

Fincher’s collaboration with Netflix is well established, dating back to Mindhunter and continuing through Mank and The Killer, making the streamer a natural home for the project. The sequel shifts the timeline into the 1970s, expanding Booth’s story beyond the revisionist climax of the original film, which famously rewrote the events of the Manson murders in 1969.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton is not expected to return, but several familiar and new faces will populate Booth’s world. The cast includes Scott Caan, Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, and JB Tadena. Timothy Olyphant is confirmed to reprise his role as James Stacy from the original film.

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Tarantino produces alongside Pitt, David Heyman, Ceán Chaffin, and Stacey Sher, with frequent Fincher collaborator Erik Messerschmidt serving as director of photography. The film was shot on location in Los Angeles, maintaining the city’s central role as both setting and subject.

Though brief, the Super Bowl teaser suggests The Adventures of Cliff Booth will lean into character over plot, attitude over exposition — and nostalgia filtered through two of modern cinema’s most distinct voices. For Netflix, it’s a major prestige play. For audiences, it’s the return of one of the coolest characters Tarantino ever put on screen, now reframed through Fincher’s lens.