Brad Pitt to Reportedly Play His Oscar-Winning Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Role in Netflix Spin-Off

David Fincher will reportedly direct from a script by Quentin Tarantino

The adventures of Cliff Booth, the laid-back stuntman Brad Pitt won an Oscar for playing in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, will continue.

Brad Pitt, 61, and director David Fincher, who worked with the star on Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Se7en, are putting together the unexpected project with a script by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino. The project will be set up at Netflix, where Fincher, 62, has a first-look deal, reports The Playlist. It is currently in development,The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline also report.

The project, which doesn’t have a title yet, will reportedly start shooting in the summer. It’s also not clear if this is a traditional sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which hit theaters in 2019 and was released by Sony. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it is a “derivative” inspired by the previous film, although The Playlist describes it as a “sequel.” 

Tarantino recently shelved The Movie Critic, a 1970s-set screenplay reportedly about a movie reviewer for a pornographic magazine. Pitt’s character was expected to appear in that before Tarantino dropped it. The writer-director also fleshed out Clint in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel, which expanded the scope of his 1969-set film far beyond the traditional movie novelizations.

No other actors have been cast. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Clint was the stuntman for Leonardo DiCaprio’s beleaguered TV star Rick Dalton. Margot Robbie played Sharon Tate, who was not killed by Manson Family followers in Tarantino’s alternate history due to Clint’s violent heroics.

Pitt’s performance in Hollywood earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. The movie also won an Oscar for Best Production Design and its nominations included Best Picture and Best Director.

Pitt will next be seen in F1, in which he plays a Formula One driver in the 1990s. The film, director Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to Top Gun: Maverick, opens on June 27. Pitt is also an executive producer on Netflix’s hit limited series, Adolescence.