Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Are Scoring Fincher's Cliff Booth Movie
Cliff gets the Social Network treatment.
David Fincher is bringing his favorite composers back for his next movie. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, Fincher's spin-off of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The news came from the new poster Netflix shared this week (Variety).
It's their sixth movie together, since the Nine Inch Nails duo first teamed up with Fincher on The Social Network in 2010 and won the Oscar for best original score.
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What is The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth about?
It follows Brad Pitt's stuntman from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and the story is set eight years after that movie. Quentin Tarantino wrote the script, and Fincher directed it, which is a team-up nobody saw coming a few years ago.
Pitt is back as Cliff, and the rest of the cast includes Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Timothy Olyphant and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
When can you watch it?
The movie plays exclusively in IMAX theaters for two weeks starting November 25, and then it hits Netflix on December 23.
What other Fincher movies did Reznor and Ross score?
Every single one since 2010. After The Social Network, they scored The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, Mank and The Killer, and they won a Grammy for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo too. Outside of Fincher's movies, they've scored Soul, Challengers and Queer.
My read is this pairing is a bit of a curveball, and that's why it's exciting. Tarantino movies usually run on old records and needle drops, while Reznor and Ross are known for cold, buzzing synths. Mixing those two styles around a laid-back stuntman who solves problems with his fists could make for a really strange, really cool soundtrack. (Brandy the dog had better get her own theme.)
If you need a refresher before November 25, the original is worth a rewatch.
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Header image is an official still from The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, from Netflix. In-article image is an official still from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, from Sony Pictures.
