The first set photos from Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie with Leonardo DiCaprio have emerged online.
Shared on Twitter by users @jasonosia and @justashottt_, the first photos of Anderson’s new, still-untitled movie see DiCaprio dressed in what appears to be a bathrobe and a stocking hat. Sporting a mustache and sunglasses, the images see him using a payphone outside a store called Murphy’s Health & Wellness Center.
Check out the set photos below:
You can also check out footage of a police chase scene filmed for the movie, which is being referred to as “BC Project” at this time, shared on YouTube:
What do we know about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie?
On January 10, 2024, Deadline reported that Anderson’s new Warner Bros. movie would begin production on January 21, 2024. Along with DiCaprio, the movie will star Sean Penn and Reginal Hall.
The script is also written by Anderson, while plot details remain under wraps at this time. Deadline’s article states, “We have learned that it is a contemporary setting and it is the most commercial one that PTA has attempted, with a commensurate budget.”
DiCaprio is coming off of Killers of the Flower Moon, which was directed by Martin Scorsese and is currently streaming on Apple TV+. While DiCaprio, himself, didn’t receive an Oscar nod for playing Ernest Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon, the movie was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actress in a Leading Role (Lily Gladstone), and Actor in a Supporting Role (Robert De Niro).
Anderson, meanwhile, is known for making movies such as 1997’s Boogie Nights, 1999’s Magnolia, 2002’s Punch-Drunk Love, 2007’s There Will Be Blood, 2012’s The Master, 2014’s Inherent Vice, 2017’s Phantom Thread, and, most recent, 2021’s Licorice Pizza.
Anderson is also producing the new DiCaprio-starring movie, which does not yet have a release date, with Sara Murphy.
