Reznor and Ross Score Tarantino's Cliff Booth Spinoff

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have written the score for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, according to Rolling Stone, which reported the news on 2 November 2026. A score is the original music a composer writes to play under the action of a film, often heard more than it is noticed.

The film is a spinoff, a story that branches off from an earlier one. It returns to the world of Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood. Tarantino wrote the new film, and David Fincher directed it. Brad Pitt reprises his role as Cliff Booth, a stuntman who has become a fixer. The story is set in 1977, eight years after the events of the earlier film.

Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Timothy Olyphant and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II also appear in the cast.

Reznor and Ross have worked with Fincher many times. They have scored six of his films, including The Social Network, Gone Girl and Mank. Their score for The Social Network won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2011, the film industry's top prize for that category.

They have also scored the last four films directed by Luca Guadagnino, among them Challengers and After the Hunt. That gives the pair a long run of projects with two of the most closely followed directors working in Hollywood today.

The release is arranged in two stages. The film opens in theaters on 25 November, and it moves to Netflix on 23 December. Viewers who want to see it on a big screen have about three weeks to do so before the streaming date arrives.

For people who know the film only from its trailers, the score is one of the parts they will hear without seeing. Reznor and Ross's music for Fincher's films has often been built to sit under tense, quiet scenes, and the new film will test whether that approach carries over to a 1970s Hollywood story. The answer will come when audiences sit down with it, in cinemas from late November or on Netflix from December.