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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Director David Fincher Chopped 60 Pages From Quientin Tarantino’s The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth Screenplay · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Quentin Tarantino has got a reputation for being one of
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  Speaker 2: the most gifted screenwriters of this generation. He's also been
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  Speaker 2: the one directing his material for almost his entire career.
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  Speaker 2: So he's used to nobody messing with his scripts. But
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  Speaker 2: that changed dramatically with this upcoming movie. It's called The
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  Speaker 2: Further Misadventures of Cliff Booth. Yeah, it's the.
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  Speaker 3: Sequel to his movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,
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  Speaker 3: both starring Brad Pitt. But this time, David Fincher is directing.
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  Speaker 1: And David basically took a machete to Quentin's screenplay. He
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  Speaker 1: chopped out 60 whole pages. And some fans who love
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  Speaker 1: Tarantino movies have FOMO over what might have been left out.
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  Speaker 2: Bud Fincher told Empire Magazine the original script was 230 pages.
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  Speaker 2: And for perspective, most spec scripts come in at about
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  Speaker 2: like 90 pages total.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. And David said that he would have to make
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  Speaker 3: two movies to get everything in there. So he had
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  Speaker 3: to make some tough decisions about what to keep in
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  Speaker 3: there at all.
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  Speaker 1: And even with those parts being removed, the movie still
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  Speaker 1: runs two hours and 20 minutes. So it's not exactly short.
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  Speaker 2: The further misadventures of Cliff Booth hits IMAX November 25th.
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  Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood.