Brad Pitt is back in the saddle — well, back behind the wheel, back on a Hollywood backlot, back as Cliff Booth. Netflix dropped a brand-new teaser trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth on Nov. 2, and it’s the freshest look yet at one of the year’s most talked-about film projects. The Cliff Booth trailer gives fans another glimpse of Pitt in the role that won him an Oscar, this time in a very different Hollywood.

Quick refresher, because the setup matters. Cliff Booth first showed up in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the 2019 film where Pitt played a stuntman drifting through late-1960s Los Angeles. Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for that performance in 2020. Now Tarantino has written the screenplay for the follow-up, but he’s handed the director’s chair to David Fincher. That’s a pairing film fans have been chewing on since the project was announced: Tarantino’s words, Fincher’s eye.

The new film jumps ahead to 1977. That’s eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and the official synopsis keeps it short: “Brad Pitt returns to his Academy Award-winning role as Cliff Booth, only this time it’s 1977 and it’s a very different Hollywood.” Just Jared published that synopsis with its Nov. 2 trailer report. GeekTyrant’s coverage of the same trailer notes that the story finds Cliff cleaning up Hollywood’s dirty secrets — a job description that sounds about right for a stuntman who never quite left the fringes of the business.

Who’s in it, and when can you see it?

Pitt isn’t carrying this one alone. The cast listed by both Just Jared and GeekTyrant includes Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Corey Fogelmanis, JB Tadena, and Karren Karagulian. Just Jared also lists Matt Groove among the cast. It’s a deep bench, and the mix of old hands and newer faces fits a story about a Hollywood in transition.

Dates are locked, too. Netflix is giving the film a two-week exclusive run in IMAX theaters worldwide starting Nov. 25, 2026, before it lands on Netflix on Dec. 23, 2026, according to both outlets. Tickets for the IMAX run are already on sale. That release plan tells you plenty about how Netflix sees this movie: big-screen treatment first, streaming second, with the holidays doing the heavy lifting in between.

Why does the IMAX-first plan matter? Because Netflix doesn’t hand out theatrical windows like this to every title. A two-week exclusive IMAX engagement signals confidence — the studio wants the film seen large, loud, and with a crowd before it becomes a living-room watch. It also puts the film in front of awards-season audiences at exactly the right moment. None of that guarantees a hit, of course. It does mean Netflix is betting real money on people showing up.

Why Cliff Booth still hooks people

Here’s the thing about Cliff Booth: he was never the hero of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and that’s why audiences latched onto him. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton got the spotlight. Pitt’s Cliff got the dog, the trailer, the quiet menace, and the sense that he’d seen things he wasn’t telling anyone about. Fans have argued about that character for years — what he did, what he didn’t do, where he went next. A whole movie built around him was always going to draw a crowd.

Fincher directing a Tarantino script adds another layer of curiosity. Fincher’s films tend to be precise, cold, and tightly wound. Tarantino’s scripts tend to be loose, talky, and explosive. Put them together and you get something nobody can quite predict, which is exactly why the trailer drop on Nov. 2 got picked up so fast. The first full trailer arrived a few months ago, per GeekTyrant, and this new teaser keeps the campaign rolling toward that Nov. 25 IMAX opening.

One detail worth keeping in view: the 1977 setting. Hollywood in 1977 wasn’t the Hollywood of 1969. The studio system had cracked open, the blockbuster era was taking shape, and the stunt world Cliff worked in was changing under his feet. A story set in that moment has room to say something about an industry eating its own past — if it wants to. The trailer, for now, keeps its cards close. It sells mood and Pitt’s presence more than plot, and that’s a smart move three weeks out from release.

Don’t confuse this with the site’s earlier Cliff Booth coverage, either. The Nerdy Humourist previously reported on the film’s poster and its first trailer push. This is a new trailer, a new round of stills, and a fresh news peg — the Nov. 2 teaser drop that kicked the final marketing stretch into gear. For the state of the box office this film is walking into, see our recent report on You Can See Everything topping the Halloween weekend box office.

What to watch for next

Three weeks isn’t long. Expect more stills, more clips, and probably a longer trailer before Nov. 25. The questions that matter: how much of Tarantino’s voice survives Fincher’s direction, how the 1977 setting plays on an IMAX screen, and whether audiences who loved Cliff as a supporting player will follow him as the lead. Pitt has carried plenty of films on his own name. This one asks him to carry a character fans already feel they own.

That’s a risk. It’s also the whole point.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth?
It’s a follow-up to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, focused on Brad Pitt’s stuntman character Cliff Booth. Tarantino wrote the screenplay and David Fincher directed it. The story is set in 1977.

When does the Cliff Booth movie come out?
It opens for a two-week exclusive IMAX run worldwide on Nov. 25, 2026, then arrives on Netflix on Dec. 23, 2026. IMAX tickets are already on sale, per Just Jared and GeekTyrant.

Who stars alongside Brad Pitt?
The cast includes Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Corey Fogelmanis, JB Tadena, and Karren Karagulian, with Matt Groove also listed by Just Jared.

Do I need to have seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood first?
It helps a lot, since Cliff Booth’s whole appeal comes from that film and Pitt’s Oscar-winning turn in it. The new film is built as a continuation, so knowing the character’s backstory will make the 1977 jump land better.