David Fincher says he cut about 60 pages from Quentin Tarantino’s screenplay for “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,” the follow-up to “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” starring Brad Pitt. Fincher describes the script as coming in at roughly 230 pages in its first draft and says it was “essentially two movies,” implying that the length and structure required trimming.
Across the outlets, the core details match: Tarantino wrote the screenplay, Fincher is the director, and the film is positioned as an “Once Upon a Time…” follow-up. The reporting centers on Fincher’s account of editing and the rationale tied to the script’s scope, drawing on a quote Fincher gives in an interview with Empire that also involves Tarantino.
The outlets differ mainly in emphasis rather than substance. One focuses more on the fact of the pages being removed and frames it as a direct statement by Fincher; others foreground the “two movies” characterization of the original draft to explain why cuts were made.
