BRAD PITT CLIFF BOOTH SUPER BOWL NETFLIX TEASER DROPS

## Netflix Just Dropped The Year's Biggest Surprise Brad Pitt returns in 'The Adventures of Cliff Booth,' Netflix's sequel to 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' at the Super Bowl, catching viewers completely off guard during the first quarter. No leaks. No advance warning. Just pure Hollywood power move. The short teaser was set to retro music and showed Cliff kicking back at a bar, walking behind the scenes of a film set and behind the wheel of a derby car on a dirt race track. It starts with the stuntman icing his knee and meeting Elizabeth Debicki and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's characters, both dressed up in fancy Old Hollywood clothing. That's because any time Booth is, say, smoking a cigarette, it is crudely scratched out onscreen — doubtless at once a nod to TV standards and a thumb to the nose at censors. The scenes are set to retro needle drops and punctuated by cheeky censorship gags (a scribbled-onto-celluloid effect) that blurs out implied nudity, profanity, and violence with faux film damage. Classic Tarantino energy, even when he's not directing. ## The $200 Million Handoff That Shocked Hollywood "I love this script, but I'm still walking down the same ground I've already walked," he said on The Church of Tarantino podcast. "It just kind of unenthused me. This last movie, I've got to not know what I'm doing again." So Tarantino did something unprecedented. He passed his baby to David Fincher. In the same month, Tarantino described the budget for the film as the largest he has ever been associated with, adding that the film is going to be "in the region of $200 million". The Adventures of Cliff Booth will have a reputed $200 million budget, making it one of the most expensive streaming original movies ever made. Quentin Tarantino opted not to direct his Cliff Booth sequel movie – and instead took $20m off Netflix for David Fincher to make it. Tarantino will earn $20 million for writing the script, which is the first official sequel to one of Tarantino's original movies. Not bad for walking away. ## The 1970s Shift Nobody Saw Coming "The Adventures of Cliff Booth" picks up in the 1970s. The footage from The Adventures of Cliff Booth makes one thing very clear immediately: this is moving on from the 1960s setting of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and is giving us the grimy, grainy Hollywood of the 1970s instead. While DiCaprio's Dalton is not expected to return in the spinoff, Booth is back in action alongside new characters played by Scott Caan, Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, and JB Tadena. Timothy Olyphant is also confirmed to reprise his "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" role of James Stacy. Elizabeth Debicki and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II flash by, and we see an Oscar statuette being placed on Cliff's desk — you know, in case anyone forgot just how beloved this particular character became. Meta as hell. Pure Tarantino DNA, Fincher precision. This isn't just a sequel. It's Hollywood royalty switching directors mid-dynasty. Filming wrapped on January 15, 2026. The Adventures of Cliff Booth is scheduled to be released in select theaters and on Netflix in 2026. The biggest Super Bowl surprise since Janet Jackson just became Netflix's biggest flex of the year.