It was exactly 57 ago that Cliff Booth and Rick Dalton sat down at the bar in Musso’s to discuss their future together. That date, according to Quintin Tarantino’s One Upon a Time in America, was February 8, 1969. Today, on February 8, 2026, the first teaser trailer for Netflix‘s upcoming The Adventures of Cliff Booth aired during the Super Bowl.
Sure, the former event is featured in a work of fiction and the latter in a real-life ratings bonanza, but fans of the film who lauded it for its period detail will appreciate the symmetry.
Note: The trailer has not yet officially been released by Netflix, but Deadline will add it here when it is.
The footage kicks off after the events of Once Upon a Time. Booth (Brad Pitt), with ice on his knee and shoulder, admits to Elizabeth Debicki’s character that he helped Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton “subdue the hippie intruders” at the end of Tarantino’s film. While she hunts for details, Rick demurely declines.
What follows is a montage of scenes set to the theme from Peter Gunn that show Booth and Debicki’s character walking shoulder-to-shoulder between two buildings, Carla Gugino’s character at a Malibu beach house, what appear to be Asian gangsters carrying a sledgehammer, Booth inside a theater’s projection room, a Blaxsploitation film being shown onscreen, Booth engaged in a demolition derby, the exterior of Big Kahuna Burger and much more.
What isn’t in the trailer are any cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, nudity or cursing. That’s because any time Booth is, say, smoking a cigarette, it is crudely scratched out onscreen — doubtless at once a nod to TV standards and a thumb to the nose at censors. Also missing is the project’s title anywhere in the footage, but when you have Brad Pitt reprising an Oscar-winning role from a Quentin Tarantino film, brand recognition is pretty high.
The new story about Booth is based on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: A Novel, which Tarantino wrote and published, adding reams of material and backstory to the Cliff Booth mythology. It includes a fatal run in with a couple of goonish henchman of a mobster who tried to strongarm and scare Booth away from spending time in the company of the mobster’s mistress.
Character details about the film are under wraps, as is the film’s plot. Pitt leads the ensemble as Booth, who in this film transitions from Rick Dalton’s stuntman to Hollywood fixer. As previously announced, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Scott Caan and JB Tadena will also star.
David Fincher directs from a script by Tarantino. As for why the Once Upon a Time helmer didn’t tackle the project, he said it’s a case of been there, done that.
“I love this script, but I’m still walking down the same ground I’ve already walked,” he said 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.”
As for a release date, today’s teaser simply says “Coming Soon.”