Hey guys. Been a while but I'm a bit of a recluse. Hopefully wilberfan and worldforgot can re-vouch for me because I got one "track a PTA shoot across the valley" shoot under my belt :p

Two thoughts I have about the news that seem to counteract each other...

1. In my mind Joaquin is Zoyd Wheeler and I don't see anyone else playing him. That said, if Joaquin wasn't available Leo would not be a bad choice.

2. If the budget really is that high, then that's an argument in favor of it being Vineland...to capture the zaniness of that book you need a big budget (thinking about Sean Penn's Brock swooping in on helicopters while blasting Ride of the Valkyries).

Man I really hope it's Vineland. That would just be truly remarkable.

And it's reportedly shooting in Eureka, CA (at least partially)--which is very much like the setting of the 3 chapters of VINELAND I read a few months ago...    

No. It's definitely original.

It could also be "based on Vineland" in the same way that TWBB is "based on Oil!"
Is the PTA/Pynchon relationship comfortable enough that, after doing a faithful Inherent Vice, PTA could just use Vineland as "inspiration"?

Please don't be Vineland. I loved the book of IV and didn't dig the movie (no matter how many times I've tried) and I love the idea of PTA doing something original again and "commercial" (lol, knowing PTA you know this is going to be anything but, remember when WB said IV had a Boogie Nights vibe, it was anything but that, bar the ensemble) Anyways, a contemporary PTA "action film" sounds both surreal and incredible, and a great switcheroonie from LP. Wishing him all the best for the shoot, exciting times!

I've never really understood why people don't like IV. It's honestly my favourite of his movies; would like to live in that world Anderson created onscreen. And Josh Brolin's performance is an all-timer.

I wonder when we'll find out about some of the other personnel involved. Surely some of those things are not trade secrets.

Director of photography?
Production designer?

Question is who's gonna be our insider sending us pics and updates from Eureka... that's how we learned basically everything about the last one.

And that's pretty exciting given they start shooting on the 21st. I hope someone is up there with a camera. I wonder if the set will be a little bit more sneaky/under the radar shooting a contemporary film; fewer big sets than a period piece.

Quote from: Find Your Magali on January 11, 2024, 05:01:46 PMI wonder when we'll find out about some of the other personnel involved. Surely some of those things are not trade secrets.

Director of photography?
Production designer?

I can't imagine he goes back to a hired DP after doing the last 2 films in his new way.

Also who would he hire. He can't get Elswitt as they both of said they were on the outs after IV

Would love to see him re-team with Darius Khondji for a feature.

He's expressed interest in working with Lubezki. 

Quote from: Drill on November 30, 2022, 06:57:54 PMhttps://twitter.com/cowspod/status/1598090806493351945

Bringing this back...

Quote from: Find Your Magali on January 11, 2024, 05:01:46 PMDirector of photography?
Production designer?

Neither one of those were publicly known about SOGGY until the film was released.  I met a young woman at the El Portal one afternoon--who turned out to be the Production Designer, and I--in desperation--once asked a guy from the Camera Dept, "DOES THIS THING OFFICIALLY HAVE A DP?" He nodded in the affirmative with a sly smile.

I anticipate the same tight lid on this one too.

Will Tichenor be back for this? It's no coincedence that PTA's most widely embraced (at least immediately upon release) films (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, and Phantom Thread) were all edited by him. And if this is PTA's most mainstream (if that's what they mean by commercial) film then surely Tichenor will be editing, right? He's not attached to any other project at the moment.

Quote from: kingfan011 on January 11, 2024, 05:53:51 PM

Quote from: Find Your Magali on January 11, 2024, 05:01:46 PMI wonder when we'll find out about some of the other personnel involved. Surely some of those things are not trade secrets.

Director of photography?
Production designer?

I can't imagine he goes back to a hired DP after doing the last 2 films in his new way.

Also who would he hire. He can't get Elswitt as they both of said they were on the outs after IV

I guess I just imagined that if he's wrangling bigger stars than in Licorice Pizza and if he's under some pressure to deliver a mainstream success with a $100M budget, he might want to take something off his enormous plate.