Leonardo DiCaprio and Paul Thomas Anderson’s mystery movie One Battle After Another drops first trailer
The mystery movie Leonardo DiCaprio has been working on with writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has finally been revealed.
One Battle After Another released its first trailer today, giving audiences a tease of what’s to come. Up until two months ago, not even the title had been made public.
Loosely based on the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland, One Battle After Another is centred on Bob Ferguson (DiCaprio), a former revolutionary with a group called the French 75, whose daughter is abducted by an enemy.
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The rest of the video is a barrage of tense, fast-paced shots of guns, action, jumping out of cars and even a bombing, as it flashes between Bob’s past with the group, and the reunion between old comrades as they mount a rescue.
The film also stars Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Alana Haim, Wood Harris, Sean Penn and Chase Infiniti, and will feature a score from long-time Anderson collaborator and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.
It is due for release on September 25.
Anderson’s most recent film was Licorice Pizza, the 1970s-set story about growing up in Los Angeles. Among his best-known films are There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, and The Master. He’s previously adapted another Pynchon novel, Inherent Vice.
It’s a busy day for DiCaprio whose upcoming Martin Scorsese project has landed a distribution deal with the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios.
The film, which is still untitled, will mark the seventh feature collaboration between the filmmaker and the actor, after Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Scorsese will direct from a script by Nick Bilton and it also stars Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson.
The story is said to be in the ballpark of The Departed and Goodfellas, and is supposedly based on a mob boss fighting for control of the Hawaiian islands in the 1960s and 1970s, trying to build a criminal empire.
