Paul Thomas Anderson has a new movie on the way, and it seems he found his leading man. Bradley Cooper is currently in talks to star in this untitled film, set in San Fernando Valley during the 1970s.
Anderson’s upcoming feature film will reportedly focus on a high school student, who is also a successful child actor. This won’t be the director’s first project set in the San Fernando Valley—that was also the case with Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love.
This promising project will serve as a follow-up to Anderson’s critically acclaimed period drama Phantom Thread from 2017. Since then, he directed several of Haim’s music videos and released a short film, Anima, in collaboration with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke.
Cooper’s recent roles include a voiceover role in Avengers: Endgame, and the Oscar-nominated turn in the musical drama A Star Is Born, which he also directed. He’s set to appear in Guillermo del Toro’s next film Nightmare Alley and Leonard Bernstein biopic Bernstein, which he’ll also direct.
