First Look: Brad Pitt Returns in Tarantino's "The Adventures of Cliff Booth"

Netflix delighted fans with a first glimpse of Brad Pitt returning to his role as stuntman Cliff Booth in “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” the sequel to Quentin Tarantino's “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” during the Super Bowl broadcast.

The brief teaser, underscored by vintage tunes, displays Cliff enjoying himself at a bar, navigating a film set, and commandeering a demolition car on a dusty track. The sequence opens with Cliff taking care of his knee and interacting with characters played by Elizabeth Debicki and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, flaunting glamorous classic Hollywood attire. In a tongue-in-cheek censorship gimmick, the teaser intersperses moments of nudity, cigarettes, offensive gestures, firearms, and profanity. A standout moment features Cliff settling an Oscar on his desk, acknowledging Pitt's first acting Oscar originating from his role in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

David Fincher is taking the director's baton for the sequel to the 2019 iconic Tarantino film, with Tarantino penning the script but entrusting Fincher with directorial duties. Fincher's association with Netflix goes back to his tenure with the TV series “Mindhunter,” spanning his recent films “The Killer” and “Mank.”

The original film ended with Cliff and his leading performer and ally, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), dramatically rewriting history by slaying the Manson family culprits on the night they were destined to murder Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Steven Parent in 1969. "The Adventures of Cliff Booth" commences in the 1970s. Though DiCaprio's Dalton is not anticipated to reappear, Cliff rejoins the action alongside characters portrayed by Scott Caan, Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, and JB Tadena. Timothy Olyphant is confirmed to return as James Stacy from the original film.

The production team includes Tarantino, Pitt, David Heyman, Ceán Chaffin, and Stacey Sher, with Fincher's regular collaborator Erik Messerschmidt as the director of photography. The film was shot on location in Los Angeles.