When news of a new David Fincher/Brad Pitt movie surfaced on Tuesday, a lot of people reacted with the assumption that it was a joke. Yes, it was April Fool’s Day, a dubious holiday that has taught anyone reading the internet to take the whole thing with several grains of salt until the calendar safely turns to April 2nd. (Would that such healthy skepticism about sketchy internet-sourced information was more pervasive in day-to-day life.) But most April Fool’s News takes the tenor of material designed to make you sigh with relief upon realizing it isn’t real. This, by contrast, was more of a dream-team fantasy: David Fincher would reteam with three-time collaborator Pitt on a sort-of sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, following Pitt’s Cliff Booth (the role for which he won an Oscar) years later – with a script by none other than Quentin Tarantino. Yes, the
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