Leonardo DiCaprio’s Revolution has Begun in “One Battle After Another” Trailer
A week after Warner Bros. released the first teaser for Paul Thomas Anderson’s mysterious new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another, we now have the full and fully unhinged trailer. Leave it to Anderson to follow Licorice Pizza, his lovely look back at the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s, where he grew up, with a tonal and subject curveball like this one. Anderson does not repeat himself, and One Battle After Another once again looks like new ground for the man who brought us such wildly different masterpieces as There Will Be Blood, The Master, and Boogie Nights.
One Battle After Another cast is, par the course for PTA, stocked with talent. The film is centered on Leonardo DiCaprio’s revolutionary Bob Ferguson, and while the plot remains vague even after the full trailer, reports are that Anderson was at least partially inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland.” This wouldn’t be Anderson’s first crack at Pynchon’s work; his adaptation of Inherent Vice came out in 2014. DiCaprio’s loose-cannon revolutionary is romantically involved with Teyana Taylor’s character (they have a daughter together), and that daughter has gone missing. Benicio Del Toro plays DiCaprio’s revolutionary sensei, whose advice on overcoming his fear includes pushing him out of a moving car.
Although we don’t get a glimpse at Sean Penn, as we did in the teaser, we do hear his character saying, “Not one thing, it’s another. I find that to be true.”
The cast also includes Chase Infiniti, Regina Hall, Benicio Del Toro, Wood Harris, Alana Haim (one of the stars of Licorice Pizza), and D.W. Moffett. Anderson directs from an original script he wrote and is working once again with his favorite composer, Jonny Greenwood.
The film was shot on location in California, with additional on-location filming in El Paso, Texas. Anderson
Check out the trailer below. One Battle After Another arrives on September 26.
Featured image: Leonardo DiCaprio in “One Battle After Another.” Courtesy Warner Bros.
