Netflix Unveils Cliff Booth Teaser on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Fictional Anniversary

Fifty-seven years ago — at least within Quentin Tarantino’s carefully curated cinematic universe — Cliff Booth and Rick Dalton sat at the bar at Musso & Frank Grill, contemplating their uncertain futures. That conversation, as depicted in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, took place on February 8, 1969. On February 8, 2026, Netflix marked that fictional anniversary in a very real way, debuting the first teaser for The Adventures of Cliff Booth during the Super Bowl.

The overlap may be coincidental, but for fans who embraced Tarantino’s film for its obsessive attention to period detail and mythmaking, the symmetry feels intentional enough to savor.

The footage picks up after the events of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Brad Pitt returns as Booth, sporting ice packs on his knee and shoulder, and calmly recounts to a character played by Elizabeth Debicki that he helped Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton “subdue the hippie intruders” during the climactic home invasion at Cielo Drive. As Debicki’s character presses for specifics, Dalton — present but reluctant — politely declines to elaborate.

From there, the teaser unfolds as a fast-cut montage set to the iconic Peter Gunn theme. Booth and Debicki’s character stride side by side through a narrow passage between buildings. Carla Gugino appears at a Malibu beach house. A group of what look to be Asian gangsters haul a sledgehammer. Booth is glimpsed inside a movie theater’s projection booth, followed by a shot of a Blaxploitation film playing onscreen. Other moments include a demolition derby, the exterior of Big Kahuna Burger and a series of sun-soaked yet vaguely ominous Los Angeles tableaux.

Notably absent from the footage are cigarettes, alcohol, nudity or profanity — staples of Tarantino’s filmography. Instead, whenever Booth appears to be smoking, the cigarette is crudely scratched out of the frame, a visual gag that functions both as a nod to television broadcast standards and a pointed jab at censorship. The teaser also never displays the project’s title, though with Pitt reprising an Oscar-winning role from a Tarantino film, branding may be considered optional.

The new story is based on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel, Tarantino’s 2021 book that expanded significantly on the mythology of Cliff Booth, providing additional backstory and side adventures not seen in the film. Among them is a violent encounter with a pair of mob-connected enforcers attempting to intimidate Booth over his association with a crime boss’s mistress.

Plot specifics for The Adventures of Cliff Booth remain under wraps, as do details surrounding many of the characters. Pitt leads the ensemble as Booth, who has transitioned from Dalton’s loyal stunt double into a behind-the-scenes Hollywood fixer. Previously announced cast members include Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Scott Caan and JB Tadena.

David Fincher directs the project from a script by Tarantino, marking another high-profile collaboration between the two following Se7en, Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Tarantino, however, opted not to direct this chapter himself.

“I love this script, but I’m still walking down the same ground I’ve already walked,” Tarantino said recently 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. I’ve got to be in uncharted territory.”

For now, Booth’s world — scratched-out cigarettes, vintage cars and all — appears ready to expand once more.