Well, so much for CinemaCon: Cliff Booth waits for no studio executive. The Playlist broke a bug-fucking-nuts story on Monday evening involving one of our favorite movies of the last decade — the Quentin Tarantino epic Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — in what might be the biggest Netflix show of force in quite some time. It was so out there that almost no one believed it, and it took the might of the trades to confirm that it was even a possibility, though there are varying levels of certainty depending on who you read. What’s the big story? Well, according to The Playlist and everyone who got scooped by them, David Fincher and Brad Pitt are teaming up to bring the remains of Tarantino’s The Movie Critic to Netflix at some point in the future.
That feature, which Tarantino scrapped back in 2024, was due to be his last movie, and some believe it was shelved because it was a sequel, and Tarantino didn’t want to go out like that. What’s known is that Booth was going to be a major character in that movie about a film critic writing for a porn magazine. Deadline believes that the deal isn’t final (and that Fincher only saw the script after Pitt got Tarantino’s blessing), but Variety‘s less skeptical. Everyone cites that the rights for the characters will return to Tarantino at some point in the future and that the sweetheart deal he signed with Sony included him retaining all sequel rights. It’s weird, but not impossible, and we hate this pun, but stranger things have happened.
Expect more details to emerge in the coming days. All we know is that we’re ready to spend more time with Pitt’s best character from any film this century, and we don’t really care if it’s going to streaming or hitting theaters. Hell, we even bought the book!