Quentin Tarantino had quite a surprise in store on Friday night.

The filmmaker made an appearance at AFI Fest in Los Angeles for a screening of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , sitting down for a Q&A afterward about his hit movie. But just as the night seemed to be wrapping up, Tarantino surprised the crowd at the TCL Chinese Theater with a first look at The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth , showing off the first 17 minutes of the follow-up film .

Tarantino wrote the script for Cliff Booth , with David Fincher stepping in to direct this time around. The new project sees Brad Pitt reprise his Oscar-winning role as stunt double Booth, and is set in 1977, eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time .

Before showing off the footage — which saw Booth working as a cinema projectionist while handling some more unsavory business on the side — Tarantino explained his decision to revisit the character in the first place.

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