“Freedom is no fear, just like Tom Cruise,” Benicio Del Toro tells Leonardo DiCaprio, mid-car-chase, in the latest trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another.” And that’s right before DiCaprio heaves himself out of a moving car.

Anderson’s 10th feature, his second Thomas Pynchon-inspired adaptation after “Inherent Vice,” is likely to skip fall festivals altogether after being a no-show on this week’s Venice or TIFF lineups. The pot-fueled Southern California noir “Inherent Vice” actually was Anderson’s last movie to play festivals — then the New York Film Festival — as he opted to skip the circuit for Oscar nominees “Phantom Thread” and “Licorice Pizza.”

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The new trailer offers a deeper look at “One Battle After Another’s” action set pieces, all set to Beyoncé’s rousing “Freedom” off her 2016 album “Lemonade.” With DiCaprio uniting with Anderson for the first time, the cast also includes del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. The film centers on a group of radical revolutionaries known as the French 75 (no, not the classic brunch cocktail) who disbanded more than a decade ago but are brought back into action once a former nemesis reappears.

DiCaprio plays the ex-activist Bob Ferguson, who now lives in seclusion and is known as “Ghetto Pat,” with “Presumed Innocent” breakout Infiniti starring as his teenage daughter, now a budding revolutionary herself who’s still coming of age amid the group’s latest battle. Penn stars as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw, the group’s biggest adversary and a hate-driven white supremacist, with Taylor, Hall, and Del Toro as Bob’s former comrades.

“One Battle After Another,” at this point, won’t play the New York Film Festival, either, as its opening day (September 26) coincides with the start of NYFF’s 2025 edition. The only festival the film could play at this point would be Telluride, which feels unlikely, and the event doesn’t share its lineup until just before Labor Day weekend anyway.

Anderson’s perennial composer Johnny Greenwood returns to write the music for “One Battle After Another,” which shot on 35mm with VistaVision cameras throughout California in the first half of 2024.

Watch the latest trailer for “One Battle After Another” below.

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