Though we usually have to wait for years between them, Paul Thomas Anderson’s films are well worth the wait. His last film — 2007’s Oscar-winning There Will Be Blood — was nothing short of cinematic brilliance, but since then it’s been very silent on the P. T. Anderson front. His next — which was originally titled The Master — is currently in a very long period of pre-production, but it seems to have lost a title, and perhaps the entire plot. Though it was long-rumored that the film would star Joaquin Phoenix and Anderson favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman in a story that would serve as a thinly-veiled parrallel of the rise of the controversal religion of Scientology, there seem to have been some changes to the script. For one thing, an article from Backstage claims the film has lost it’s title and is not set in the 1950s as it was originally, but it is a Western. We can at least confirm the first part, as Anderson fansite Cigarettes and Red Vines has produced a snap from Cannes which shows perhaps the most generic teaser poster ever assembled for public view. Seriously, that could be a photo a student took in a high school photography course (at least a good student)… take a look yourself!
I imagine a film could be set in the 1950s with Western sensibilities — after all, the Coen Brothers set a Western in the present in No Country For Old Men — but I’m not sure how accurate Backstage’s info is, since the previously reported plot of the film doesn’t seem to fit the Western mold. Anderson’s next film — whatever it ends up being called and whatever it ends up being about — isn’t set for release until 2013 from the Weinstein Company, so we have a while to wait. But you can be sure that when it finally gets here it will be a pretty big deal!
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