Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel to star Elizabeth Debicki and Scott Caan

Scott Caan and Elizabeth Debicki have been added to the cast of filmmaker David Fincher's sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood at Netflix, according to The Hollywood Reporter and What's on Netflix, respectively. They will join Brad Pitt, who returns to play his Academy Award-winning character of a laid-back stuntman. Fincher is directing the film from a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, the writer and director of the original film.

Despite lingering skepticism among fans regarding the project, the recent cast additions signal its concrete progression. As per Variety, the makers are planning to start production later this year in California.

The development of the sequel started after Tarantino shelved plans for his tenth and purportedly final film The Movie Critic. The film, set in the 1970s, had a screenplay ready and Pitt attached to play the lead character, reportedly a film critic at a porn magazine. According to speculation, Pitt's character might have been a variation of the stuntman who, in Tarantino's novel adaptation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is a film buff. The extent to which elements of Tarantino's shelved project have been incorporated into the untitled sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is undisclosed.

Besides his standalone work, Tarantino has a history of penning scripts for other filmmakers, including for Tony Scott in True Romance and Robert Rodriguez in From Dusk till Dawn. For Fincher, this marks his third consecutive feature collaboration with Netflix, following the Academy Award-nominated Mank and the Michael Fassbender-starrer The Killer.

Debicki most recently appeared in Ti West's MaXXXine, a period piece set in the entertainment industry of the mid 1900s. She is known for her Emmy-winning portrayal of Princess Diana in the Netflix series The Crown. Caan, meanwhile, has starred alongside Pitt in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's trilogy. His titles also include a role in the Fox series Alert: Missing Persons Unit, which recently concluded its third season.