Good news: Brad Pitt’s new Cliff Booth movie isn’t OUATIH-long — runtime’s out
Good news if you like your Pitt punchy: The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth’s runtime is in, and it’s significantly shorter than Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Well, here we go: The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth has finally had its runtime revealed, and if you were hoping for another three-hour epic... sorry, that is not what we are getting this time round.
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth lands in IMAX on 25 November 2026, followed by a Netflix debut on 23 December 2026.
This spin-off (or, depending on how you squint, standalone sequel) to Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood brings Brad Pitt back as Hollywood stuntman and seasoned fix-it man Cliff Booth. It's not Tarantino himself at the helm, mind you — that's David Fincher in the big chair, though Tarantino wrote the script. It's a madly intriguing combination, even before you get to the rest of this line up.
Trimmed Down for Streaming
If you remember, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ran for a generous 2 hours and 41 minutes. Well, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth will be clocking in at about 2 hours and 20 minutes, according to Empire. That knocks a solid twenty-one minutes off the previous outing. Fincher's to thank for that, since apparently the first draft clocked in at some 230 pages. He chopped it down by about 60 pages — as he explains, finding the sweet spot meant threading together what he, Pitt, and Tarantino each wanted from the project:
Fincher told Empire that 'somewhere in there was the Venn diagram of what Brad wanted to do, what I want to do, what Quentin wanted to do... Not "want to do," but the areas we would focus on.'
What's the Plan for Cliff?
So what's Cliff Booth up to these days? After the fairy-tale haze of late-sixties LA, he's still kicking around Hollywood — but the city doesn't exactly need 'a hippie-slaying stuntman' anymore. Booth, when he isn't pulling pints behind a bar or running reels as a projectionist, has become a kind of Hollywood fixer. Someone gets themselves into a jam? Cliff's got exactly the sort of unorthodox — sometimes barely within the law — skillset you need.
This time, a talent agent named Karen Crosby (Elizabeth Debicki) calls up, asking for a hand with her client — TV legend Charlie Peters (Scott Caan), famous for doing his own stunts. Cliff gets drawn into Charlie's world, which also involves Charlie's clever wife Toni (Carla Gugino), former American footballer turned actor Roderick "Hot Rod" Harrison (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), and the two Verdusco brothers (Matt Groove and JB Tadena), a pair of gangsters currently giving LA headaches. The story shifts into crime caper territory, promising a full cocktail of 'violence, ambition, and desire' — which, let's be honest, is half the point of watching these outings anyway.