Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson is following up his last film, Licorice Pizza, with a star-studded new film titled One Battle After Another, which is said to be the filmmaker's unique version of an action film, as evidenced in the first teaser released ahead of the trailer release next week.
Leonardo DiCaprio leads the film which also features Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Alana Haim, Wood Harris, and Shayna McHayle.
The teaser shows a succession of images of DiCaprio in different looks, hinting at the possibility of the film taking place in various periods. We also see him and actors Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti firing guns, presumably in a chaos-stricken scenario.
The film is said to be Anderson's second attempt at a cinematic adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel after Inherent Vice. One Battle After Another is loosely based on Pynchon's 1990 book Vineland.
Warner Bros, which is backing the film, initially planned to release it in August 2025 but has since postponed it to September 26.
Anderson made his directorial debut in 1996 with the critically acclaimed Hard Eight, starring John C. Reilly, Philip Baker Hall, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Samuel L. Jackson. But it was with 1997's Boogie Nights that Anderson made his breakthrough. The multi-starrer revolved around a group of characters working during the Golden Age of the American porn industry.
A filmmaker with a singular vision and an enviable knack for getting the best out of actors, all of Anderson's films have found themselves in the Top 10 lists of most critics. For example, Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for his performance in Anderson's There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!
