Leonardo DiCaprio has provided a teaser of his upcoming “incredibly epic” thriller film from Paul Thomas Anderson.
The Hollywood A-lister was at CinemaCon on Tuesday (April 1) to give fans a preview of One Battle After Another, the upcoming black comedy movie that he has made with the There Will Be Blood and the Phantom Thread director.
The film, which also stars Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor, is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland and is scheduled to be released on September 26.
A synopsis reads: “When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunites to rescue one of their own’s daughter.”
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“I’ve been wanting to work with Paul for, gosh, 20 years now,” DiCaprio said at the convention, describing the film as having been made on an “incredibly epic scale”.
“With this film he’s tapped into something politically and culturally that’s burning beneath our psyche,” he added.
Like many previous Anderson films, One Battle After Another will feature an original score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. Anderson also adapted Pynchon’s 2009 novel Inherent Vice in 2014.
The film marks DiCaprio’s first starring role since 2023’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese‘s historical drama which was nominated for 10 Oscars.
Anderson, who also wrote the script, is yet to win an Oscar, but has been nominated 11 times, with Licorice Pizza receiving nods for Best Picture, Best Director and best Original Screenplay.
Back in January, meanwhile, it was reported that DiCaprio and Scorsese are reuniting for another movie project they’ve been developing for years.
As reported by Deadline, the pair could finally be set to shoot a film adaptation of Erik Larson’s bestselling book The Devil In The White City, with DiCaprio in talks to star and Scorsese in talks to direct, and both potentially on board as producers.
Elsewhere, it emerged this week that Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood, in which DiCaprio starred as a fading TV star, will be getting a sequel directed by David Fincher.
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