Quentin Tarantino has admitted that Brad Pitt was on his mind when he stepped away from directing his sequel to “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” “[Pitt] was the one I felt I was really letting down when I didn’t do it,” Tarantino told Empire. However, despite write the script that would become Netflix’s “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,” hitting IMAX cinemas on Nov. 25, Tarantino revealed that it wouldn’t be his 10th and final film as director. With Pitt being “disappointed that he wasn’t going to play Cliff Booth again,” David Fincher — who had previously directed the actor in “Seven,” “Fight Club” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” — stepped in.
You think he’d be interested? Fucking yeah: show it to him!’” But Tarantino claims that he was worried about scaring Fincher away with his enthusiasm. I was trying to maneuver it so I wouldn’t say anything that fuck shit up,” he said.
I’ve gotten a lot of respect as a screenwriter, but I still feel that people think that I’m a director who just writes shit for himself. The fact that a director of David’s caliber would spend a year-and-a-half of his life doing my material was wonderful. It said a lot about what was on the page.” Whereas “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is set in 1969, “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth” skips forward to 1977, with Booth now acting as a studio fixer in Hollywood.
Sometimes you have to push back on that. I knew the new stuff, and Brad knew who the guy was, so Brad could withstand the hurricane of, ‘What about this? What about that?’ He was like, ‘No, no, no.
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