Few filmmakers are in a position to stability Academy Award-contending tasks with irreverent, esoteric comedy like Paul Thomas Anderson, and the 53-year-old director’s subsequent mission seems prefer it’ll completely toe the road between the 2. Anderson’s new movie is characteristically shrouded in secrecy, however the drips of confirmed particulars and the intriguing rumors make it simply probably the most fascinating motion pictures on the horizon. Anderson is working with Hollywood veterans Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Corridor, and Sean Penn, alongside a number of gifted musicians-turned-actors (Teyana Taylor and Junglepussy), and a distinguished newcomer in Chase Infiniti.
Although we haven’t had official affirmation, indicators level to the film being Anderson’s second dip into the Thoms Pynchon bibliography after Inherent Vice, this time tackling his sprawling 1990 novel Vineland. As with all Pynchon work it’s an unlimited, wealthy, often befuddling e-book that explores a wide-range of concepts round twentieth century America and hippie tradition, subjects that appear tailored for PTA. Anderson has mentioned the movie will shoot in California, Texas, and Mexico. In February, filming in Sacramento created controversy when the manufacturing had a homeless encampment moved so as to movie in a park.
Under is all the pieces GQ is aware of in regards to the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson mission, although a lot of the data out there may be nonetheless rumors. One factor we all know for certain, PTA’s subsequent mission gained’t be his rumored Seventies jazz odyssey with Denzel Washington.
Who’s starring in PTA’s subsequent movie?
Anderson has introduced collectively eclectic ensembles to nice impact in movies like Magnolia and Inherent Vice, and the reported solid for his new mission is numerous and interesting. On the prime of the marquee are newcomer Chase Ifiniti and Leonardo DiCaprio, the type of field workplace powerhouse the director hasn’t actually labored with since Tom Cruise. (Again in 2022, PTA put out a casting name for a “combined ethnicity feminine American Junior excessive/freshman scholar who’s bodily athletic and excels at Martial Arts,” which is presumably Infiniti.) The all the time improbable Regina Corridor performs a key position, too, and looks like the proper performer for the director’s mix of earnestness and askew humor. Different supporting roles will probably be performed by Alana Haim, who made her movie debut in Licorice Pizza, Academy Award winner Sean Penn, musical powerhouse and star of A Thousand and One Teyana Taylor, and critically acclaimed rapper Junglepussy.
The script was written by Anderson himself, and sees him reteaming with Licorice Pizza cinematographer Michael Bauman. (These hoping for a reunion of Anderson and his longtime DP Robert Elswit, the person behind the look of Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, and Magnolia, ought to have stopped holding their breath way back.) On the manufacturing facet, Anderson is working with Licorice Pizza collaborators Adam Somner and Sara Murphy.
So…what’s it about?
We don’t know—however the prevailing rumor is that Anderson’s mission will probably be based mostly on Vineland, Thomas Pynchon’s fourth novel, revealed in 1990. The e-book is ready in California in the course of the Ronald Reagan administration, specializing in the fallout and continued exploits of a gaggle of ‘60s hippies, led by Zoyd Wheeler, who The Guardian as soon as mentioned was “equal components Homer Simpson and the Dude in The Large Lebowski.” The novel closely makes use of flashbacks to point out the lives of Zoyd, his former accomplice Frenesi, their teenage daughter Prairie, and a authorities agent named Brock Vond.
