Paul Thomas Anderson is making a summer 2025 'event film' starring Leo & Sean Penn

Didn't have this one on the bingo card, but I'll take it. Speculation he's adapting another Thomas Pynchon novel, but that a big risk for a $100M+ film.

Even though my favorite PTA film is Inherent Vice, I still know Pynchon doesn't quite ppeal to the summer blockbuster type masses, but they could be hoping Oppenheimer changed that

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Across his nine features thus far, Paul Thomas Anderson has never had a prime summer release, but that is about to change when it comes to his currently untitled, maybe Vineland tenth feature. With production still underway across California with the cast of Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris, Alana Haim, and Chase Infiniti, Warner Bros. has now set an August 8, 2025 wide release, including an IMAX run, for what they describe as an “event film.”

With a reported budget of $115 million ($20 million of which goes to DiCaprio), the question still remains if Anderson is indeed adapting Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, but the evidence continues to pile up it’s at least a loose interpretation of that sprawling 1990 novel: Infiniti potentially playing DiCaprio’s daughter, shooting taking place in Eureka as well as outside of Ronald Reagan’s old house, while DiCaprio was captured on set saying lines lifted directly from the novel.

It’s hard to fathom an anti-art tycoon like David Zaslav would finance a $115 million Pynchon adaptation, but we’re glad there are still unexplainable mysteries in this world––if nothing else, perhaps it’s simply proof of a studio willing to fund a DiCaprio-led feature at any cost.

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