Hello hello!
Today,
Variety confirmed two long-speculated but previously unofficial pieces of information about PTA's hotly anticipated new one:
- It is untitled no longer! And is indeed called One Battle After Another.
Intense.
- To less fanfare, Warner Bros has pushed the movie back a handful of weeks to now open in wide release on September 26 from its originally scheduled August 8 slot.
Variety attributes the delay to an exciting piece of information we
didn't already know:
- Warner Bros is currently working with theatre chains to retrofit their screens with VistaVision projection systems to be able to show the film properly.
Gulp.
Beyond that, we also now know that Warner Bros has test-screened the movie a couple of times over the last month+, and while much about the outcome of those screenings is not known, there have been persistent whispers that the film does indeed track Thomas Pynchon's
Vineland quite closely and that
the runtime is in the neighborhood of three hours (!)
Whether this will be a formal adaptation by way of credit is not yet clear, and whether there may still be trims forthcoming is also not clear, so do take the information with a grain of salt. At any rate, this is starting to take on a 'Willard-finally-nearing-Kurtz' vibe.
It's close... you can feel it.
More soon, hopefully sooner than later!
