Netflix’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Sequel Super Bowl Trailer Sends Brad Pitt to the ‘70s

Once upon a time in Hollywood, stuntman Cliff Booth helped past his prime actor Rick Dalton save Sharon Tate from the Manson Family. Now, once upon a time in the 1970s, Dalton is back, looking cooler than ever.

The first trailer for The Adventures of Cliff Booth has dropped, checking in with Brad Pitt as the titular daredevil. Set to the tune of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn” and apparently shot on film that’s been rotting in the corner of an adult bookstore for 40 years, The Adventures of Cliff Booth trailer looks like something that Quentin Tarantino would have included in 2007’s Grindhouse. Which is shocking, because Tarantino chose not to helm his Once Upon a Time follow-up, turning the reigns over to Pitt’s Seven director David Fincher.

Once Upon a Time found Cliff at a particularly low point, having been reduced to driving Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) around all day and hanging out in a trailer with his dog at night. But Booth came with a legend built up around him, ranging from defeating Bruce Lee in a fight to maybe killing his wife with a harpoon. The latter incident, which the film and some cool narration by Kurt Russell leaves ambiguous, was enough to get Booth black-listed, resulting in his job with Dalton. That turned out to be a good thing, as he and Dalton were able to fight off an invasion by the Manson followers, sparing Tate (Margot Robbie) from her real-world fate.

The trailer for The Adventures of Cliff Booth doesn’t give us any indication that changing the course of Hollywood has helped Cliff’s fortunes. However, it does show that the incident enhanced his already considerable swagger. Over the course of the minute-long clip, we see Booth drop charming one-liners to a variety of colorful characters, played by character actors such as Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Holt McCallany.

Even more than Cliff’s style, it’s the look and feel of the movie that stands out. Tarantino has made his career on doing metatextual homages to genre films of the past, but he’s only writing the script for Cliff Booth. Conversely, Fincher has a reputation for exactness, a coolness to his style that lent dread and weight to even pulpy material like Gone Girl and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. As demonstrated by the heavy film grain in the trailer and the use of neon squiggles to censor things that cannot be shown during the Super Bowl, a little of Tarantino’s playfulness has influenced Fincher.

Will that make for a great movie? We won’t know that until the time of the movie’s release… a time still not made public.

The Adventures of Cliff Booth releases soon to Netflix and theaters.