Carla Gugino Latest Addition To Cast Of David Fincher’s Cliff Booth Follow-Up Movie

While Brad Pitt‘s intense racing action flick “F1” zooms to theaters later this month, his next big project is gearing up with David Fincher in the director’s chair as the actor is set to repise the Cliff Booth role from “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” in a follow-up adventure penned by Quentin Tarantino at Netflix (the streaming giant has an existing working relationship with both Tarantino and Fincher).

Another exciting casting addition has been announced, as Deadline has revealed that actress Carla Gugino has taken a secretive role alongside Pitt, Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

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What is being reported concerning plot details is that Cliff Booth (Pitt) is said to be taking on another career switch from stuntman to gopher, to a Hollywood fixer. Mirroring his recent fixer character from Jon Watts‘ “Wolfs,” and is also expected to take place after the events of “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” during the 1970s.

Gugino’s casting isn’t all that surprising since the actress has longstanding ties to Tarantino pal Robert Rodriguez with the “Spy Kids” movies and “Sin City” (Tarantino contributed to) along with other credits that include Brian de Palma‘s “Snake Eyes,” Ridley Scott‘s “American Gangster,” “Watchmen,” “The Lookout,” “The One,” “Gunpowder Milkshake,” and “Faster.” More recently, Gugino has become somewhat of a muse of director Mike Flanagan (“The Life of Chuck”), having worked with him on “Gerald’s Game,” “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass,” and “The Fall of The House of Usher.“

Fincher and Pitt haven’t worked together on a film since 2008’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” but had tried to reunite on blockbuster-level projects such as “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, and a sequel to the zombie flick “World War Z,” only for those to never materialize (Fincher has been adverse to massive films after his miserable experience with 20th Century Fox on “Alien 3“). The two have a longstanding working relationship that goes back to career-defining projects in the 1990s with “Seven” and “Fight Club.”

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Tarantino had been trying to put together his tenth and final movie, “The Movie Critic,” another 70s-set story that was expected to feature Pitt’s Cliff Booth, only to pivot with this project that will see Tarantino and Fincher teaming up in a very exciting collaboration.

We can’t wait to see what the two filmmakers have in store for Cliff Booth.