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Warner Bros. has unveiled the first official trailer for One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson — known for acclaimed films like Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, and The Master — One Battle After Another reportedly has a budget around $150 million, making it Anderson’s most expensive project to date.
This teaser arrives just one week after Warner Bros. announced shifting the film’s release date from August to September. Alongside Academy Award-winner Leonardo DiCaprio, the ensemble cast of One Battle After Another includes Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris.
One Battle After Another is inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, marking the second time Anderson has adapted one of Pynchon’s works for the screen, following his 2014 film Inherent Vice.
Watch the first full official trailer for One Battle After Another, which opens in theaters on September 26, below — to promote the release of the film, DiCaprio created a YouTube channel, where the below trailer is hosted.
Since his feature film debut in 1996 with Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson has directed critically acclaimed films such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk-Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, and Licorice Pizza.
As for DiCaprio, One Battle After Another will be his third film of the decade following Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up in 2021 and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon in 2023. DiCaprio is also currently attached to another pair of Martin Scorsese films and a biopic about Evel Knievel directed by Damien Chazelle.