Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall Board Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Movie
There’s no stopping the news this week! Deadline has learned that Paul Thomas Anderson will be shooting his next movie later this year, with Leonardo DiCaprio finally set to work with him, years after he almost played Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights.
DiCaprio, who is up for an Oscar nomination this month for his work in Killers of the Flower Moon, joins the cast along with Regina Hall and Sean Penn. The package is set up at Warner Bros., with Anderson writing, directing, and producing (with Sara Murphy and Adam Somner).
Anderson’s last film, Licorice Pizza, was at MGM, where worked under current WB Pictures co-chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy. Details are kept under wraps, but Deadline is describing it as his most commercial film yet. It’s set to be an ensemble piece, with more players still to come.
Filming will start later this year. Reporter Jeff Sneider had mentioned Hall’s and DiCaprio’s names a year ago, and back then he was saying the film could be a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. Here is the Goodreads synopsis of that novel:
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times — sexual and political — which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past.
An old nemesis, federal prosecutor Brock Vond, storms into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed strike force. Soon Zoyd and his daughter, Prairie, go into hiding while Vond begins a relationship with Zoyd’s ex-wife and uses Prairie as a pawn against the mother she never knew she had.
Part daytime drama, part political thriller, Vineland is a strange evocation of a twentieth-century America headed for a less than harmonic future.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
