Netflix released a second trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth on November 6. The film opens exclusively in IMAX theaters on Wednesday, November 25, for a two-week run, then arrives on Netflix on Wednesday, December 23. David Fincher directs from a new screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, and Brad Pitt is back as the stuntman he won an Oscar for playing in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The story jumps to 1977, eight years after the first film. Hollywood no longer needs Cliff the way it did, so he tends bar, runs a projector, and quietly fixes problems for the studio system's stars. A call from a talent agent, played by Elizabeth Debicki, pulls him into the world of a TV star known for doing his own stunts, and the sunny alternate history of 1969 gives way to a crime story.
The release plan is the unusual part. This is the first Netflix film to play in IMAX theaters around the world, a slot the streamer had first lined up for Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew before moving that film to February. Regal and Cinemark, two of the largest US chains, are not showing it, so the two-week window will be easier to catch in some cities than others.
A trailer cannot tell you how a Tarantino script plays in Fincher's precise, controlled hands, and that pairing is the real question. It does confirm the period, the shift from fairy tale to crime story, and the date. If you want the big screen version, the clock starts on November 25.
