Quentin Tarantino surprised audiences on Friday night at AFI Fest when he shared the first 17 minutes of  The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. 

Tarantino made a special appearance at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, following a screening of  Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood.  Following the Q A moderated by Rotten Tomatoes' Jacqueline Coley, the filmmaker said,  Well, I could talk a little bit about  The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth' or I could show you the first 17 minutes. 

Directed by David Fincher, who was also in attendance, the film sees the return of Cliff Booth played by Brad Pitt. The film picks up in 1977 from the original film's 1969 timeline. The logline reads:  Los Angeles no longer needs a hippie-slaying stuntman the way it did. But Hollywood will always have problems, problems that can only be solved by someone with Cliff's unique (occasionally extralegal) abilities. When he's not earning his keep bartending or as a projectionist, Cliff Booth is a fixer - solving situations for Hollywood's great and, sometimes, not so good. 

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He's curious when he gets a call from talent agent Karen Crosby (Elizabeth Debicki), on behalf of her client, TV megastar Charlie Peters (Scott Caan) - a man known for doing his own stunts. And he's further entertained and intrigued when he meets other characters in Charlie's world, from his knowing wife Toni (Carla Gugino) to pro football champion turned screen star Roderick  Hot Rod  Harrison (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). Then there are the Verdusco brothers (Matt Groove and JB Tadena), mysterious gangsters causing mayhem across the city. What was once a fairytale is now a crime story - a cocktail of violence, ambition and desire that could only happen in LA.

Tarantino, who wrote the screenplay, shared his decision to revisit Cliff Booth. He said,  I tend to not remember good reviews of mine in quotes; I remember the bad reviews in quotes, but I don't really remember good reviews of mine in quotes. But one quote that I do remember somebody writing about  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' was,  This seems like the firs
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