Updated, March 27, 2025: Leonardo DiCaprio launched his own YouTube page and debuted the trailer for One Battle After Another.
The trailer starts with the Revenant (2015) Oscar-winner entering a grocery store dressed in a plaid robe to steal some sunglasses. Then he scrambles to a payphone to make a coded call.
DiCaprio will play Bob Ferguson, who was part of the French 75. As Bob narrates his life story, shots of Teyana Taylor playing a heavily pregnant woman firing a rifle intercut with soldiers breaking into a home.
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“I cannot remember for the life of my only child the answer to your question,” DiCaprio says desperately when he can’t remember the answer to “What time is it?” after getting several consecutive passwords right.
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“Maybe you should have studied the Rebellion text a little harder,” the voice on the other end of the line says.
“I need to find my daughter,” DiCaprio’s Ferguson replies sharply, and he is told to call back when he has the time.
Regina Hall, Chase Infiniti, Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn can also be seen in the full trailer.
Previously, March 20, 2025: Warner Bros. has dropped a first teaser clip for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Leonardo DiCaprio gunslinger thriller One Battle After Another.
The clip puts some flesh on scant details revealed so far about the movie, reportedly loosely inspired Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland and also featuring Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and Chase Infiniti in the cast.
In the teaser, DiCaprio is seen reflectively sipping on a beer and then jumping as a volley of shots is fired, before cutting to a woman firing off an automatic rifle into the wilderness.
There’s a brief shot of a baby with a voice asking, “What are you gonna do about this baby?” which then cuts to a teenage girl firing off a rifle with the same crazy abandon as her presumed mother years before.
Penn’s character is then seen dragging the screaming girl amid gunfire, followed by DiCaprio saying wryly, “Just when you think you got a handle on things.”
The clip drop comes hot on the heels of news that One Battle After Another has been pushed from an August 8 to a September 28 theatrical release in the U.S..
The move has prompted speculation of a fall festival push even if it is not Anderson’s preferred way to launch a film. The director was last in Venice with The Master in 2012 for which he won Best Director.
The One Battle After Another teaser preceded the full trailer.