A surprise teaser for Netflix’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth aired during Super Bowl LX on February 8, putting Brad Pitt back in the role he first played in 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and giving the streaming giant one of the night’s highest-wattage film reveals.
The spot played like a fast sizzle reel: Pitt’s Cliff sits at a bar, drifts through the back corridors of a working movie set, then climbs behind the wheel on a dirt track in footage that leans on stunts and speed. A running gag blurs flashes of nudity, cigarettes, guns, profanity and raised middle fingers, turning the ad’s edgier beats into a winking censor-strip montage built for broadcast standards.
David Fincher directs from a script credited to Quentin Tarantino, shifting the reins of Tarantino’s screen world to a filmmaker with a very different rhythm and visual discipline. The teaser also nods to Cliff’s awards status, cutting to a shot of him setting an Oscar on his desk, a clear callback to Pitt’s Best Supporting Actor win for the character.
The first trailer for David Fincher’s ‘THE ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH’ has been released.
Coming soon to Netflix. pic.twitter.com/E70SJrBUzB
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 9, 2026
The film positions Cliff in the 1970s after the alternate-history climax of the original, which ended with Cliff and his friend Rick Dalton derailing the Manson killers’ attack. Trade reporting says Leonardo DiCaprio is not expected to return, while the sequel adds Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, JB Tadena, and Timothy Olyphant, who reprises his earlier role as James Stacy. Debicki recently said the production shot for nearly six months in Los Angeles and called the experience “a joy,” praising Fincher and Pitt.
Netflix has not posted the teaser in an official online release, but copies have circulated widely on social platforms, extending the campaign beyond the broadcast buy and keeping the project in the news cycle heading into its 2026 rollout.
