The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth (2026)

In 1977 Los Angeles, eight years after his encounter with the Manson family, former stuntman Cliff Booth has outgrown the work that once made him useful in Hollywood. He now takes jobs as a bartender and movie-theater projectionist, while relying on his less conventional skills to solve problems for the city’s powerful. His routine shifts when talent agent Karen Crosby calls on behalf of her client, television star Charlie Peters, a performer famous for doing his own stunts. Cliff is drawn into the orbit of Charlie, Charlie’s wife Toni, and former football champion Roderick “Hot Rod” Harrison, now pursuing a screen career.

The assignment unfolds against a Hollywood where murder, blackmail, theft, and extortion are part of the business Cliff is asked to manage. The Verdusco brothers, gangsters whose activity is unsettling the city, add another volatile presence to the story. Cliff’s practical challenge is to navigate these overlapping personalities and dangers while handling the kinds of situations that conventional industry fixers cannot easily resolve. Set in a specific moment of late-1970s Los Angeles, the film shifts the character’s world from stunt work toward the uneasy machinery of celebrity, ambition, and crime. Its story follows not only Cliff’s return to action, but also the people and pressures surrounding the Hollywood figures who depend on him.