'One Battle After Another' Trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, and More Star in PTA's Latest

For his follow-up to 2021’s excellent Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman-led Licorice Pizza, which nabbed a Best Picture nomination, writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has assembled a characteristically stacked cast boasting Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor. For both, the title in question—One Battle After Another, out this September via Warner Bros. Pictures—marks their first time working with the consistently acclaimed filmmaker.

After a recent teaser featuring both a beer-sipping Leo and a machine gun-wielding Teyana signaled that a trailer was on the horizon, we were finally given exactly that today.

“You know what freedom is? No fear,” DiCaprio’s character, revealed here to be named Bob Ferguson, is told at one point in the two-plus minute look at PTA’s biggest swing yet. In another tense moment, Ferguson is informed that Taylor’s character, who is pregnant in the film, comes from a “whole line of revolutionaries.”

For the sixth time, Anderson has recruited Radiohead guitarist and Oscar-nominated composer Jonny Greenwood to helm the score. The two first partnered for There Will Be Blood back in 2007, with Greenwood having scored every Anderson film since then.

One Battle After Another also stars Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Alana Haim, Wood Harris, and Benicio del Toro. As has been the focus of much of the early talk surrounding the film, particularly in connection with an early screening at the top of the year, this will stand as the highest-budgeted entry in PTA’s filmography yet, with the Hollywood Reporter recently putting that figure at over $130 million.

The battle begins in theaters and IMAX this September. Catch the first trailer up top. If you missed Taylor in the Sundance-premiered A Thousand and One back in 2023, now's the time to remedy that.