Netflix released the second trailer for “The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth” on Friday, November 6th, 2026. It runs two minutes and 42 seconds on Netflix’s YouTube channel, which is 72 seconds longer than the September cut. It opens on a question about a stuntman who beat Bruce Lee. That stuntman is Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). David Fincher directs a script by Quentin Tarantino. The film opens exclusively in IMAX on Wednesday, November 25th, and starts streaming on Netflix on Wednesday, December 23rd. The new cut finally says what Cliff has been hired to do.
The September trailer set up 1977 and a Hollywood that had changed. This one sets up the plot. A mystery trailer works for one cut, and by the second the audience wants the answer. Warning beyond this point there are spoilers for “The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth” and everything shown in its trailers.
This one sets up the plot.”
Cliff wakes in a dim bedroom as the Bruce Lee question plays. A card reads “JUNE 1977” over a night street, and a second card extends it to “JUNE 1977, HOLLYWOOD, CA” over the same street. The stunt work has dried up, so Cliff now runs a projector and tends bar. A helmet with a star on it sits on a closet shelf. He plays the legend down: “It’s been exaggerated a bit over the years. It was a long time ago.” That line sums up the whole cut, because the people around Cliff keep asking about the man who beat Bruce Lee.
The job offer comes from Karen Crosby (Elizabeth Debicki). “This is Karen Crosby. I represent the actor Charlie Peters and Charlie Peters Enterprises, and he would love to meet you about an upcoming project at your earliest convenience.” Karen is a talent agent, and Charlie (Scott Caan) is her client, a TV star known for doing his own stunts. That detail is the setup for everything after it. A man who does his own stunts has no use for a stuntman. The next line has nothing to do with the job: “First, feed Durwood.” Durwood is a cat.
Television runs through the middle of the cut. A man in a suit lounges in a rattan chair above a swimming pool on a rounded TV screen. A People cover and a TV Week cover follow. The second one carries a soldier in a helmet. Later come a black-and-white western street, a man stepping through blue curtains with his arms flung wide and a man crawling across Paris rooftops under the Eiffel Tower. Netflix’s synopsis calls Charlie a TV megastar. The trailer never says which of these clips are his. It never lets the audience forget that his world is a screen.
At the agency the questions turn to Cliff’s past. Gold Derby credits the question about Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) to Karen, and Cliff answers that Rick “got too fat for me to double him anymore.” What’s On Netflix notes that the exchange carries over from September. Dalton is discussed and never seen. Another voice asks what Charlie wants with Cliff. The reply is that Charlie does his own stunts. Then comes a list of reasons Cliff is wrong to be a double: too tall, too blonde and too handsome. The scene shuts every stunt door before the film gets to the real job.
The real job lands next. Charlie tells Cliff “I lost count of how many jokers I killed on TV, but you, you actually killed people.” A second line adds “Let’s just say I know what it’s like to kill someone with a knife.” A voice asks whether Cliff is the guy who beat up Bruce Lee, and someone says he is a little confused about what is happening here. The answer is flat: “This ain’t about stunt work.” Charlie is not hiring a stuntman. He is hiring a reputation, and the trailer is honest enough to say so out loud.
Then the tone turns. Someone asks whether Charlie finally said what he wants, and whether “all of a sudden, he needs a briefcase full of cash.” A second voice answers “Whatever it is you’re thinking, it’s not what you think”, and then comes “I think that… whatever it is, it is not good.” What’s On Netflix hears that warning as Karen’s. The pictures go dark. Two figures walk a path at night, and a woman in a slip takes a call on a corded phone. Someone crawls across a floor, and a woman stands on a beach balcony at sunset. What’s On Netflix also reads a night scene beside a yellow car as Cliff loading a body into a trunk.
The closing scene answers the plot question. “So, what were you boys powwowing about?” What’s On Netflix gives that question to Toni (Carla Gugino), Charlie’s wife. Cliff answers with a pitch for a TV series: “I had an idea about a possible series, and Charlie thinks it might have potential.” The idea is about “a famous actor and his stunt double”, in which the actor “gets involved with some Filipino gangsters, and the stuntman has to get him out of it.” The pitch doubles as the premise. What’s On Netflix adds that Fincher recently said the project came close to being a series.
After that the cut speeds up. What’s On Netflix lists car chases, gunfights and a man crashing through an aquarium. A voice warns somebody off the Verduscos, and two men in dark jackets sit in a car as the warning plays. Netflix’s synopsis calls the Verdusco brothers, Eddie (Matt Groove) and Fernando (JB Tadena), mysterious gangsters causing mayhem across the city. Hot Rod Harrison (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a pro football champion turned screen star, appears too. The title card holds, and a smoky shot inside a movie theater carries “THANKSGIVING” and “ONLY IN IMAX” before the Netflix logo.
Peter Weller is in the footage as well. ScreenCrush reads his part as Cliff’s father. The first words of the trailer are about Bruce Lee, and characters keep raising the story. IndieWire notes that the trailer never mentions the Manson family, and says the lean on the Bruce Lee scene could bring another round of arguments over it. That is a risk the cut takes on purpose. It opens with the scene from the first film that drew the most argument, and it treats that scene as a hook.
On Netflix’s Tudum site Fincher recalls telling Tarantino about a month and a half into shooting that he kept going back to “Shampoo.” “It’s not really a stunt story, it’s not really a movie story, it’s not really even a Hollywood story anymore. It’s an LA story.” The trailer backs him up. A stuntman, an agent, a TV star, a football hero turned actor and a pair of gangsters share one city and one problem. Netflix lists the film at two hours and 23 minutes. Tickets for the IMAX run are on sale through cliffboothfilm.com, per the upload’s description. The run lasts two weeks, and Regal and Cinemark will not screen it.
The September cut sold a changed Hollywood. This one sells a case. Cliff has a job to do and a warning that it is not good. The pitch ends with the stuntman getting the actor out of it, and the trailer never shows whether Cliff manages that. The question left open is the one a ticket answers.
What Do You Think? Does Charlie hire Cliff for his reputation or for what he can actually do? Is the series pitch a joke at the filmmakers’ expense or the film’s real premise? And does a trailer built on the Bruce Lee story help the film or hurt it?
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