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David Fincher Cut 60 Pages of Tarantino’s ‘Cliff Booth’ Script: ‘The First Draft Was 230 Pages. It Was Essentially Two Movies’

David Fincher cut roughly 60 pages from Quentin Tarantino’s original screenplay for “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,” the upcoming “Once Upon a…

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Variety reports: David Fincher cut roughly 60 pages from Quentin Tarantino’s original screenplay for “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,” the upcoming “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” follow-up starring Brad Pitt.

“The first draft I read was 230 pages. It was essentially two movies,” Fincher told Empire in a new joint interview with Tarantino.

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