Quick TakeArticle at a glance
- Netflix released the second Cliff Booth trailer on November 6, 2026, the fullest look yet at David Fincher's noir-streaked sequel to the 2019 film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood .
- The trailer's clearest image is also its warmest: Pitt's Cliff standing with another man in matching '70s leisurewear, like no time has passed at all.
- One quick cut puts a driver in a star-spangled helmet and racing goggles behind the wheel mid-chase, screaming through a turn.
Netflix released the second Cliff Booth trailer on November 6, 2026, the fullest look yet at David Fincher’s noir-streaked sequel to the 2019 film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth reunites Brad Pitt’s stuntman-turned-fixer with Timothy Olyphant’s James Stacy ahead of a November 25 IMAX run and a December 23 Netflix premiere.
Trailer via Netflix on YouTube.
The Facts
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| IMAX Release | November 25, 2026 (exclusive two-week run) |
| Netflix Streaming | December 23, 2026 |
| Director | David Fincher |
| Writer | Quentin Tarantino |
| Studio | Plan B Entertainment, distributed by Netflix |
| Runtime | 2 hr 20 min |
| Setting | Los Angeles, 1977 |
| Cast | Brad Pitt, Timothy Olyphant, Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Peter Weller |
Cliff Reunites With an Old Friend, Eight Years Later
The trailer’s clearest image is also its warmest: Pitt’s Cliff standing with another man in matching ’70s leisurewear, like no time has passed at all. Netflix has billed this film as reuniting Cliff with his returning co-star Timothy Olyphant, playing James Stacy, the Western TV star Cliff doubled for in the first movie — and this shot, more than any other in the trailer, reads like that reunion. It’s the one unguarded moment in an otherwise jumpy, paranoid cut, and it’s doing a lot of work to remind people this is still a buddy story underneath the crime plot.
A Fixer’s Client List Looks a Lot Rougher Now
According to Netflix’s official synopsis, Cliff spends his days bartending or running a projector and his nights “solving situations for Hollywood’s great and the, sometimes, not so good.” The trailer backs that up with a string of handshakes, hushed meetings and one encounter on a grand staircase with a stranger in a fur-trimmed coat who looks like he’s already sized Cliff up before the deal is even made.
The Stunt Work Hasn’t Gone Anywhere
One quick cut puts a driver in a star-spangled helmet and racing goggles behind the wheel mid-chase, screaming through a turn. It’s a blink-and-miss-it shot, but it’s the clearest visual tie back to who Cliff actually is underneath the fixer job — eight years on, he still knows his way around a stunt car.
A Noticeably Rougher, More Paranoid Hollywood
Where Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was warm and nostalgic even heading into its violent ending, this trailer reads tenser from the start. One quick shot shows a woman in a jumpsuit yanking the sheets off a bed with a look of real fear on her face, and the trailer offers nothing else around it — no context, no follow-up shot. It’s the kind of beat this desk exists to flag rather than invent an explanation for.
A Recurring Vintage-TV Motif
Several cuts in the trailer are framed inside old round-cornered television screens showing archival-looking footage — a wartime newsreel, a boat on open water, a small-town street. It shows up often enough across the two-and-a-half-minute cut that it reads as a deliberate device rather than a one-off joke, likely a transition Fincher is using to jump between Cliff’s scattered jobs.
What’s New Here
The 2019 original earned $409.8 million worldwide, making it Tarantino’s highest-grossing film to date, so there’s real box-office weight behind Fincher taking over the sequel. This is also the second trailer for the film, following a first teaser Netflix put out in September 2026. Compared to that earlier cut, this one spends far more time on Cliff’s actual fixer work — the handshakes, the staircase meeting, the cast of new Hollywood-adjacent characters — rather than leaning on nostalgia for the first film. Director David Fincher told Empire magazine that the first draft of Quentin Tarantino’s script ran 230 pages and was “essentially two movies” before 60 pages came out to get the runtime down to roughly 2 hours and 20 minutes, a trim that tracks with how tightly this trailer is cut.
What the Trailer Doesn’t Show
No Rick Dalton. Leonardo DiCaprio’s character from the first film is absent from every shot here, and nothing in the cut confirms whether he even factors into this story. The trailer also never explains who the woman in the jumpsuit is, what the stranger in the fur coat wants from Cliff, or what specifically pulls a seemingly retired stuntman back into work this dangerous. For a trailer this stacked with incident, it’s notably light on names.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth come out?
The film opens exclusively in IMAX theaters on November 25, 2026, for a two-week run, then begins streaming on Netflix on December 23, 2026.
Is this a sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Yes. It’s set in 1977, eight years after the events of Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film, and follows Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth as he works as a Hollywood “fixer.” Tarantino wrote the script; David Fincher directs.
Is Leonardo DiCaprio in The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth?
He has not been confirmed, and the released trailers have not shown his character, Rick Dalton, at all.
Who stars alongside Brad Pitt?
Timothy Olyphant returns as James Stacy. The cast also includes Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino and Peter Weller.
For more on the people behind this one, see our coverage of David Fincher’s next project, The Social Reckoning and Brad Pitt’s other upcoming ensemble movie, Ocean’s 14. Catch up on our other recent trailer breakdowns while you wait for the next look at Cliff Booth.
Sources: Netflix Tudum and Deadline.
