In 2019, Quentin Tarantino spun a revisionist historical fairy tale titled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a nostalgic, fictionalized story set in 1969 Los Angeles that uses dark satire to rewrite some of the city’s darkest events, creating a bittersweet tale of what might have been. The unlikely hero of the take was Cliff Booth, played by Brad Pitt, an enigmatic stuntman whose quiet competence and unshakable confidence make him both a loyal friend and a force to be reckoned with.
Now, The Adventures of Cliff Booth picks up the story, following the further exploits of the somewhat nomadic Hollywood player long after he stopped a group of drugged-up hippies from doing some real damage up in the Hollywood Hills. The upcoming Netflix neo-noir film tracks Booth eight years after Hollywood’s “happy ending” to see what he is up to now as an industry “fixer.”
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