News / Published 2026-11-04

Reznor and Ross Will Score Tarantino's Cliff Booth Sequel

Collider reports that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will score The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, their sixth film with director David Fincher and the news carried on a new poster. The film plays exclusively in IMAX from November 25 and moves to Netflix on December 23, with Tarantino writing the story and stepping away from the director's chair.

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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will score The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, Collider reports, a Tarantino-scripted sequel that reaches IMAX on November 25 and Netflix on December 23.

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THE SHORT VERSION

  • Collider reports that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will score The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, their sixth film with director David Fincher and the news carried on a new poster.
  • The film plays exclusively in IMAX from November 25 and moves to Netflix on December 23, with Tarantino writing the story and stepping away from the director's chair.
  • Variety reports that Tarantino told Empire he felt he was letting Brad Pitt down by not directing, and that Pitt had wanted to keep playing Cliff Booth.

Two composers on a new poster

Collider reports that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will score The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, and that the news came on a new poster for the film rather than in an announcement of its own. Collider identifies the pair as Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and counts the job as their sixth with David Fincher, after The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl. The poster is the only place either paper says the hiring was made public, and neither quotes a studio executive about it.

The first of those six was The Social Network in 2010, for which Collider says the two won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Original Score. Collider adds that they may be in the conversation again when nominations arrive next year, which is a forecast about the season rather than a report about the film. Collider's line about nominations is the only forward-looking sentence in either piece, and it is framed as a possibility. Neither paper gives a track, a running time for the score or a release date for the album.

IMAX first, then Netflix in December

The film plays exclusively in IMAX from November 25 and reaches Netflix on December 23, Collider reports, calling it one of the streamer's biggest feature-length titles. Collider's headline measures a different gap, describing the project as Tarantino's first sequel in 22 years and dating the first film to 2019, which is where that count starts.

That first film made more than $400 million against a $90 million budget, Collider reports, and won two of its ten Academy Award nominations at the 92nd ceremony, the larger of the two being Best Supporting Actor for Brad Pitt. Neither paper gives a budget for the sequel, a screen count for the IMAX run or a figure for the Netflix arrangement, so the only money in the record is the 2019 film's. Collider gives the release pattern in one sentence, without saying how long the IMAX window runs before the Netflix date.

Fincher takes the chair Tarantino left

Tarantino wrote the story again and stepped away from the director's chair, leaving Pitt with David Fincher, who had directed him in Se7en and Fight Club, Collider reports. Fincher's name explains why a composer story follows a director story, since the score is the sixth time he and the pair have worked on one film. Collider states the handover without explaining it, and the poster carries no line about who replaced whom. Collider gives no date for when the handover was decided; Variety dates its interview, not the decision.

Variety supplies the part Collider leaves out: writing the script did not make this Tarantino's 10th and final turn as a director. Variety's list of earlier Pitt-Fincher films runs to three titles, adding The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to the two Collider names, so the two papers disagree about the length of the history behind the hire and agree about the hire itself. Neither list is offered as a complete filmography, and the three titles Variety names are the only earlier ones either paper mentions.

The actor Tarantino felt he let down

Variety reports that Tarantino told Empire that Pitt was on his mind when he stepped back from the project. The actor “was the one I felt I was really letting down when I didn't do it”, Tarantino said, and he added: “I felt bad about that”. The admission is the only place in either report where the decision is described as something Tarantino felt rather than as something he arranged.

Pitt won the best supporting actor Oscar for Cliff Booth in 2019 and had been keen to keep the character going, Variety reports. The same piece says Pitt was disappointed not to be playing the character again, that Fincher stepped in, and that Tarantino's reaction to the possibility was: “You could have knocked me over with a feather”. Tarantino also told Empire he had worried that his own enthusiasm would scare Fincher off. Variety does not say whether Pitt has seen the finished film, and it quotes nobody from the production beyond Tarantino and Fincher.

A stuntman turned studio fixer in 1977

The logline Collider prints makes Cliff a former stuntman who becomes a Hollywood studio fixer in 1977 Los Angeles. Variety puts the first film in 1969, so the sequel moves the character eight years forward. The logline runs to one sentence in Collider and is not repeated in Variety. Pitt plays Cliff, and Collider notes that some people put him in the conversation for another acting nomination, a phrase the paper uses without naming a bookmaker, a critic or a campaign.

Nine actors are named around Pitt in Collider's list: Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Matt Groove, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis and Karren Karagulian. Collider's credit block lists Pitt, Ceán Chaffin, David Heyman, Quentin Tarantino, Shannon McIntosh and Stacey Sher as producers. Neither paper assigns a part to any of the nine, and Variety does not name them at all.

What the two reports leave out

Neither report contains a release date for the score, a track list, a budget for the sequel or a running time. Collider points readers to the poster without describing its artwork, and Variety stays with the Empire interview, so the film's look is unrecorded in both. Nor does either paper say whether Fincher shot the script as written, though the interview returns to the page more than once. The score's own release, its label and its length sit outside both pieces, and so does any description of the poster's design.

Related coverage on this site includes the earlier report on the Reznor and Ross score, the IMAX and Netflix release plan and the awards-season field around the film. A composer credit, a release pattern and an admission about a decision are what the two pieces add up to, and none of the three answers what the score sounds like.

Sources & reporting limits

  1. Quentin Tarantino's First Sequel in 22 Years Officially Adds 2 Huge Names — Collider
  2. Quentin Tarantino Thought He Was 'Letting Down' Brad Pitt by Not Directing Cliff Booth Sequel — Variety
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