Netflix Paid Quentin Tarantino $20M For His ‘Cliff Booth' Script

In case you’re wondering how much it cost Netflix to nab the script for Quentin Tarantino’s “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” TheInSneider is reporting that the streamer gave QT a cool $20M for his words. David Fincher will be directing, and Brad Pitt is set to star. Still no word yet on whether Leonardo DiCaprio, who was offered $3M for a cameo role, will take part.

Although Tarantino, known for his distinctive writing style, penned the script, he chose not to direct this installment. Instead, he entrusted the project to Fincher, who is known for his precise and atmospheric filmmaking.

Pitt played a pivotal role in this collaboration. Impressed by aspects of Tarantino's script, Pitt suggested that someone else direct it, leading to Fincher's involvement. Tarantino, while usually directing his scripts, has in the past written for films directed by others, such as “True Romance” and “From Dusk till Dawn.” It surely helped that Tarantino was a big fan of Fincher’s last film, “The Killer,” which a source tells me, he believes to be a masterpiece.

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Slightly off topic but I was wondering if Leo will backing up Teyanas oscar campaign for OBAA or if he will focus on himself this time.

The 100 Best Movies of the 2020s (So Far)

#29

“Killers of the Flower Moon” (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2023)

Martin Scorsese may like to think of “Killers of the Flower Moon” as the Western that he always wanted to make, but this frequently spectacular American epic about the genocidal conspiracy that was visited upon the Osage Nation during the 1920s is more potent and self-possessed when it sticks a finger in one of the other genres that bubble up to the surface over the course of its three-and-a-half-hour runtime.

The first and most obvious of those is a gangster drama in the grand tradition of the director’s previous work; just when it seemed like “The Irishman” might’ve been Scorsese’s final word on his signature genre, they’ve pulled him back in for another movie full of brutal killings, bitter voiceovers, and biting conclusions about the corruptive spirit of American capitalism. But if the “Reign of Terror” sometimes proves to be an uncomfortably vast backdrop for Scorsese’s  more intimate brand of crime saga, “Killers of the Flower Moon” excels as a compellingly multi-faceted character study about the men behind the massacre. Over time, it becomes the most interesting of the many different movies that comprise it: A twisted love story about the marriage between an Osage woman (the indomitable Lily Gladstone) and the white man who — unbeknownst to her — helped murder her entire family so that he could inherit the headrights for their oil fortune (Leonardo DiCaprio, giving the best performance of his career as the dumbest and most vile character he’s ever played). 

Finding the right balance in this story is a challenge for a filmmaker as gifted and operatic as Scorsese, whose ability to tell any story rubs up against his ultimate admission that this might not be his story to tell. And so, for better or worse, Scorsese turns “Killers of the Flower Moon” into the kind of story that he can still tell better than anyone else: A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it. —DE

https://www.indiewire.com/lists/best-movies-2020s/killers-of-the-flower-moon-dir-martin-scorsese-2023/

18 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said:

Slightly off topic but I was wondering if Leo will backing up Teyanas oscar campaign for OBAA or if he will focus on himself this time.

All of this considering IF the movie, Leo or Teyana are going to be at awards season, still too soon for this talk I guess.

7 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said:

The 100 Best Movies of the 2020s (So Far)

#29

“Killers of the Flower Moon” (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2023)

Martin Scorsese may like to think of “Killers of the Flower Moon” as the Western that he always wanted to make, but this frequently spectacular American epic about the genocidal conspiracy that was visited upon the Osage Nation during the 1920s is more potent and self-possessed when it sticks a finger in one of the other genres that bubble up to the surface over the course of its three-and-a-half-hour runtime.

The first and most obvious of those is a gangster drama in the grand tradition of the director’s previous work; just when it seemed like “The Irishman” might’ve been Scorsese’s final word on his signature genre, they’ve pulled him back in for another movie full of brutal killings, bitter voiceovers, and biting conclusions about the corruptive spirit of American capitalism. But if the “Reign of Terror” sometimes proves to be an uncomfortably vast backdrop for Scorsese’s  more intimate brand of crime saga, “Killers of the Flower Moon” excels as a compellingly multi-faceted character study about the men behind the massacre. Over time, it becomes the most interesting of the many different movies that comprise it: A twisted love story about the marriage between an Osage woman (the indomitable Lily Gladstone) and the white man who — unbeknownst to her — helped murder her entire family so that he could inherit the headrights for their oil fortune (Leonardo DiCaprio, giving the best performance of his career as the dumbest and most vile character he’s ever played). 

Finding the right balance in this story is a challenge for a filmmaker as gifted and operatic as Scorsese, whose ability to tell any story rubs up against his ultimate admission that this might not be his story to tell. And so, for better or worse, Scorsese turns “Killers of the Flower Moon” into the kind of story that he can still tell better than anyone else: A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it. —DE

https://www.indiewire.com/lists/best-movies-2020s/killers-of-the-flower-moon-dir-martin-scorsese-2023/

Highly disagree this is Leo best performance, not even close, but still a great performance as always. Thanks for the article.

40 minutes ago, BarbieErin said:

Highly disagree this is Leo best performance, not even close, but still a great performance as always. Thanks for the article.

Agreed! It was good but it's not the best for sure!

It’s kind of difficult to decide which of his movie roles is the best!

I would say that I like Catch me if you can, inception, shutter Island, and J.Edgar!

2 hours ago, Magical said:

Agreed! It was good but it's not the best for sure!

It’s kind of difficult to decide which of his movie roles is the best!

I would say that I like Catch me if you can, inception, shutter Island, and J.Edgar!

My faves performances from Leo are in Gilbert Grape, Catch Me If You Can, Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street, Once Upon a time in Hollywood and my fave of ALL The Revenant.