One Battle after Another: supervising location manager Michael Glaser on the film’s chaotic trek across California

In this edition of the On Location podcast, Julian Newby meets Michael Glaser, supervising location manager on One Battle After Another. 

The film follows Leonardo Di Caprio as Bob, a permanently stoned former activist living off-grid in Northern California with his daughter Willa. Years after a radical political movement he once belonged to collapsed, Bob is drawn once again into a widening conflict as old allies and enemies resurface.

OneBattle After Another explores how cycles of resistance, violence, and ideology repeat across generations. Michael Glaser talks about the challenges faced by his team, cast and crew, as the film traveled across the state of California, from the redwood forests and desert highways to borderlands and detention camps …

Watch the film’s trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOQFKv2Lw4

One Battle After Another, behind the scenes on location https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAinlvxGvdA

Explaining the references to the TMZ: https://film.ca.gov/locations/la-studio-zones/