Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson (10th feature, TBA)

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max from fearless

Okay, its test screened and sounds delicious. Sign me up. Something Wild as a template? You know he looked at Midnight Run again as well! My lord, I'm having the worst week of my life and this has cheered me up something sweet. New PTA on the horizon. Buckle up lads, we're in for a ride!

max from fearless

"Jonny Greenwood's score also felt complete, one they call "chilling, but very big with techno elements."


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Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another Test Screens, Confirmed to Be Modern Update on Vineland
Jordan Raup○January 24, 2025

"I need to start figuring out what the f— to say," Paul Thomas Anderson recently said when it came to his biggest project yet, a $115 million Warner Bros. summer tentpole with a cast featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris, Alana Haim, Benicio del Toro, and Chase Infiniti. The promotion has not begun yet ahead of its August 8 release, but the film, which runs just under three hours, held its first test screening in Phoenix, Arizona at the Harkins Theatres Norterra 14 with the director in attendance and we have the first details.

Speaking with a lucky attendee at the screening, Anderson confirmed the film––which is titled One Battle After Another––is nearly finished, helping squash those unsubstantiated reports of the film being delayed. As early rumors hinted, it is indeed a modern take on Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland. While Donald Trump isn't mentioned, the film does feature white supremacists, notably Sean Penn's menacing character Col. Steve J. Lockjaw (aka Brock Vond, for those familiar with the book), who gets the second-most screentime after Leonardo DiCaprio's character. The film captures Lockjaw's hunt for Hall's character after she leaves him to be with DiCaprio's character.

While on-set reports revealed a small portion of the tentpole-level spectacle on display, an entirely new arena for PTA, the film itself has even more than expected, with "loads of action and car chase." Our source says "it's quite batshit crazy," and don't expect anything like PTA's last Pynchon adaptation, Inherent Vice. "It could definitely appeal to a lot of people, starting with Leo and the scale that is present," they note. Jonny Greenwood's score also felt complete, one they call "chilling, but very big with techno elements."

In terms of references, the film's mix of thrills, humor, and "very moving" emotion recalls Jonathan Demme's 1986 screwball comedy road movie gem Something Wild as well as Alex Cox's 1984 sci-fi black comedy Repo Man. Our source confirmed the film does feature sci-fi elements and expertly handles weaving together its multiple tones with a feeling that "you just live in" the movie.

 "As far as I'm concerned, he's underappreciated," Anderson said of Alex Cox back in 2014. "I was 13 or 14 years old and I recognized the world [of Repo Man]. There such abandon in this movie – it's focused, it's funny, it's outlandish. It's talky in a way that never feels like a stage play 'cause it's always moving. Quentin [Tarantino] I'm sure loved this movie, we've never talked about it, but there's Quentin fingerprints all over the way these characters talk to each other." Speaking of Repo Man's night scenes, he added, "I'm always trying to get night exteriors to look the way Robby Müller shot them. I can never do it. I never know how he did it. It doesn't look like there's any lights on, it looks like how it really looks and back then — there's gotta be a million lights on... As long as I keep [making films], I'll try and get night exteriors to look like Müller." It sounds like he may have finally succeeded with his latest project.

As we await the first trailer for One Battle After Another, hopefully attached to one of WB's upcoming spring tentpoles (Mickey 17 in March or Sinners in April), here's the trailers for the two mentioned references.

RudyBlatnoyd

If it really is an action extravaganza, I wonder how they managed to shoot all those large-scale action set-pieces without everything being leaked on smartphones and by local journos. There was a little car stuff caught on camera, but nothing really to suggest the size hinted at in these preview comments.

Anyway, sounds awesome! Maybe PTA really can have a commercial hit with this one if it's action-oriented and stars Leo.

max from fearless

Rudy im praying that this is a huge hit for PTA as well! I remember some car chase footage, and then the car crash sequence, but after that was leaked, everything went dark, so imagine all the juicy stuff we have to look forward too!!! The idea of PTA making an action film is WILD. Him making an action film with Leo on the run from white supremacists is super WILD!!! Inspired by Repo Man and Something Wild, with that cast, it could be something really really strange and special. I'm excited...

wilberfan

Quote from: RudyBlatnoyd on January 25, 2025, 06:11:31 AMIf it really is an action extravaganza, I wonder how they managed to shoot all those large-scale action set-pieces without everything being leaked on smartphones and by local journos. There was a little car stuff caught on camera, but nothing really to suggest the size hinted at in these preview comments.

My suspicion is that a lot of the chase stuff was shot in 'remote' areas that they had complete control over. (Casting notices for Extras said the title of the film was "Desert Highways".) For stuff in the city, I'll bet they shut streets down for several blocks--no chance for nosy cell phones or telephoto lenses.

Find Your Magali

The teaser trailer for this is going to be an absolute all-timer.
Can't wait for all the WTFs from folks who had no idea this was being made.

max from fearless

I cannot wait for the trailer to drop, then maybe all these wack "publications" that get off on talking about box office projections and what films are failures because execs don't know how to market them, will start gushing about the trailer frame by frame.

I reckon its a good thing that execs are scared, this means the movie is most probably REALLY REALLY GOOD!!!! The last film I heard Warner Bros execs hyping up was The Flash and we all saw how that turned out. But I do hate them trying to kill the movie in the minds of those paying attention before we even get an official still image, title or plot synopsis. It's nasty work from these wannabees...

Alethia

Well, PTA and his work will long be remembered. Meanwhile, these bean-counting bootlicking "wannabes" will fast be relegated to the dustbin of history, worthless and forgotten.

RudyBlatnoyd

Maybe this is just me being naive, but if there really are executives at Warner Bros who're shocked that PTA turned in an 'extremely eccentric and bizarre' movie, then Hollywood is run by people stupider than I ever thought possible.

Rooty Poots

Quote from: RudyBlatnoyd on February 01, 2025, 03:52:21 PMMaybe this is just me being naive, but if there really are executives at Warner Bros who're shocked that PTA turned in an 'extremely eccentric and bizarre' movie, then Hollywood is run by people stupider than I ever thought possible.

It's a bit like hiring a chef like Grant Achatz, famous for his molecular gastronomy, to cater your wedding and then being outraged that there weren't any chicken tendies.
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ono

Quote from: RudyBlatnoyd on February 01, 2025, 03:52:21 PM...then Hollywood is run by people stupider than I ever thought possible.
Oh, it is.

PinkTeeth

Quote from: Rooty Poots on February 01, 2025, 06:14:01 PMIt's a bit like hiring a chef like Grant Achatz to cater your wedding and then being outraged that there weren't any chicken tendies.

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