Cliff Booth Gets IMAX Date Before Netflix

Added: 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]So, David Fincher is directing Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth in a $200 million film Netflix. Now, before we get to the budget because we definitely have to talk about that, the creative case for this is actually there. Lest we forget, Brad Pitt actually won the Oscar for his performance as Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. One of his best performances in years. I loved it. A genuinely interesting character, a quiet, dangerous man who operates by his own moral code. Quentin Tarantino wrote the script, David Fincher will be directing it. You've also got Elizabeth Debicki, I Adam Driver, there's a load of other high-profile to this. It's a great cast on paper, it sounds exciting. And I'm up for a spin-off. Like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a universe where I'd love to spend some more time there. But then you get to two things, Netflix and the budget. $200 million for a supporting character in a two-hour Tarantino movie. Fincher's most expensive movie before this was $63 million on Fight Club. This is more than three times that, and it's going directly to Netflix in December after a two-week theatrical run in IMAX. That IMAX spot, by the way, is taking the spot that was supposed to go to Greta Gerwig's Narnia film. So, they bumped Narnia for Cliff Booth. If anyone in life can justify spending $200 million in a film, this is one of those combinations. Plus Brad Pitt, like I don't think this is going to be bad. But the number still doesn't make any sense.

[00:01:14]I mean, Mandalorian and Grogu is set in bloody space, and that only cost $165 million. You're really telling me Cliff Booth, The Adventures of Cliff Booth, cost more than a Star Wars movie. Hello money laundering. Let me know in the comments your thoughts on this.