I wasn’t able to sit down and watch the Super Bowl last night in real time, but the out-of-nowhere teaser for David Fincher‘s The Adventures of Cliff Booth…that woke me up. The Peter Gunn theme especially.
Set in the late ’70s, the teaser is presenting the Quentin Tarantino-written “comedy-drama” as a hardball action piece that football fans will enjoy…muscle cars, screeching tires, edgy-looking black and Hispanic dudes with moustaches, six-foot-two Elizabeth Debicki towering over the five-eleven Pitt).
Cliff Booth is supposed to be an Eddie Mannix-like fixer or problem-solver for the big studios. But I don’t see any studios or movie stars. All I’m getting is a standard L.A. mean-streets atmosphere and a Then Came Bronson vibe.