Although Brad Pitt is bringing back Cliff Booth for a sequel to Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood , Quentin Tarantino is sitting this one out as director.

In addition to not wanting his final film to be a sequel, the 2x Oscar winner explained why he chose not to helm The Adventures of Cliff Booth , passing the baton and his script on to fellow director David Fincher.

“I think me and David Fincher are the two best directors,” he said on The Church of Tarantino podcast. “So the idea that David Fincher actually wants to adapt my work, to me, shows a level of seriousness towards my work that I think needs to be taken into account.”

After Deadline reported in April that Pitt and Se7en director Fincher got Tarantino’s approval to use his script to make the sequel, which was

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