The latest issue of Production Weekly blew up the online film world last night when there was a posting for Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film.
The listing stated that Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Rachael Taylor, Joaquin Phoenix and Viggo Mortensen were “mentioned” as being part of the cast.
I’m here to tell you that all of this amounts to is just rumors. Production Weekly took whatever intel Jeff Sneider and I have been reporting and molded it into their posting.
Fact of the matter is that, yes, DiCaprio is said to be in talks for the film, but Hall, Mortensen, and Phoenix’s inclusion in the cast is purely speculative for now. That’s what I’m being told.
What we do know about this mysterious new project is that it is set to shot this July in Los Angeles. Rumors are pointing to it being an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland,” but that is, again, pure speculation.
PTA has already tackled a Pynchon novel, 2014’s “Inherent Vice.” That turned out to be the most polarizing movie of his career. Pynchon movie adaptations are very risky, his way of writing and telling a story is a stylistic beast of its own.
PTA’s last film was the acclaimed “Licorice Pizza” in 2021. He’s not known to jump this fast into another project, but it seems like that’s just what he’s about to do.