PTA & DiCaprio’s “Battle” Dubbed ‘Too Weird’

Warner Bros. Discovery is reports concerned about filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s new feature “One Battle After Another” following a test screening in Arizona last week.

The project boasts a $140 million budget, easily the “Boogie Nights,” “The Master” and “Punch-Drunk Love” director’s biggest to date – multiple times that of his other films, with the new effort aiming to be his most commercial play as well. At that budget, Warners wants a big audience.

However In Touch Weekly and PuckNews are reporting that the film, currently going by the title “One Battle After Another,” is being considered “extremely eccentric and bizarre” to the point that not even having Leonardo DiCaprio as its lead will help the film break even.

In Touch says the team-up of Anderson and DiCaprio was mainly the actor’s idea and he has been wanting to do a film with Paul Thomas Anderson since his early twenties.

But Anderson’s highest-grossing film to date is 2007’s “There Will Be Blood” which made $74.2 million – ‘Battle’ at the minimum will need to do double that. This was known going in, but the reports suggest the film ims “too weird for even Leo’s most adventurous fans”.

They add that if Warner Bros. execs give into their nerves, the film will “probably…move off of [the] summer 2025 release date for a more forgiving position on the release calendar.” That means a shift from the current August 8th release to either a more awards-friendly berth at the end of the year, or even a 2026 debut.

The project marks the second adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon work by Anderson following 2014’s “Inherent Vice”. This one, a spin on “Vineland,” also stars Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor.

Source: The Playlist

The post PTA & DiCaprio’s “Battle” Dubbed ‘Too Weird’ appeared first on Dark Horizons.