Brad Pitt Was Going to Play His ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Character in Canceled Tarantino Film
It was already disappointing to hear that Quentin Tarantino called off plans to make his intended tenth and final film as a director, The Movie Critic. But now we learn that while the movie would have been about a film critic for a seedy ’70s magazine, Brad Pitt would have starred in the film as Cliff Booth, his laconic stuntman character from Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. That’s the word from The Hollywood Reporter, who have a new article on exactly why the project fell apart after months of development and rewrites. According to their report, Pitt was specifically cast as Cliff ...