Jonny Greenwood to score Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film aka ‘Phantom Thread’


Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead Coachella 2012

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has again enlisted the services of Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. The duo have a collaborative history dating back 10 years and their work together on Anderson’s next film, set to star Daniel Day Lewis, will mark their fourth team-up.

The announcement of Greenwood’s attachment as composer on Anderson’s next film came today, Feb. 1 via Focus Features, in a statement also confirming production has begun on the picture. Anderson’s forthcoming film which, according to The Playlist, goes by the working title Phantom Thread, is a drama centered on the fashion world of 1950s London and will follow the life of an “uncompromising dressmaker commissioned by royalty in high society.”

Greenwood has scored three PTA films to date; There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012) and the auteur’s latest Inherent Vice (2014). Anderson’s next film will reunite the director with both Day-Lewis and Greenwood, both of whom won a slew awards for their contributions to There Will Be Blood.

Anderson and Greenwood’s creative partnership ventured beyond the world of feature film back in 2015 when the duo traveled to India’s Rajasthan to work together on the documentary Junun. Anderson directed the doc, which followed the making of Greenwood’s latest album at the 15th century Mehrangarh Fort. Anderson also subsequently helmed a trio of music videos — “Daydreaming,” “The Numbers” and “Present Tense” — for Radiohead’s most recent album A Moon Shaped Pool.

PTA’s yet-to-be-officially-titled film is set to be released later this year. Lesley Manville (“Another Year“) and Vicky Krieps (“Hanna,” “A Most Wanted Man”) were recently confirmed to costar alongside Day-Lewis.