Paul Thomas Anderson's next movie is definitely coming out this year
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It’s been months since we heard any rumblings about Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to Phantom Thread (HAIM videos don’t count), with the last news being that he had cast Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son Cooper as the lead in the film back in September, but now The Film Stage has an important update: The movie is coming out this year, specifically November 26, which seems to suggest that there really is a future on the horizon where people can safely go to theaters and new movies come to those theaters instead of just opening on streaming platforms. That’s exciting, but we still don’t know much about Anderson’s next movie, like, say, what it’s called. We’ve heard that it’s set in California in the ‘70s and that Hoffman (in his acting debut!) is playing a young actor, with Alana Haim (from HAIM, also in her acting debut!) will also be appearing as… someone. We don’t know. The Film Stage says Bradley Cooper will be there as an “old-school producer/director” and Benny Safdie will play a politician, but it’s anyone’s guess at this point how those pieces will all fit together.
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That’s nothing! Paul WS Anderson has nothing scheduled for release this year, and his last movie was crap! Your move, Paul Thomas Anderson!
Paul WS Anderson’s next project will be an adaptation of another beloved Capcom franchise, starring Milla Jovovich as Meg A. Mann, a badass spec-ops soldier who has her right hand surgically replaced with a Glock. She fights other people who have been turned into cyborgs by having parts of their body replaced with weapons, which she fishes from their corpses and shoves into her own body after defeating them.
I want the artwork for this on a Carl’s Jr. extra large soda cup yesterday!
You mean Hardee’s, right?
She can’t be Megaman, she has to be an OC who’s somehow the main character.
The Sinister Sweater or whatever it was called was absolutely brutal, true. Tried rewatching it and failed miserably. Yikes.
Ah, harvest. This year’s crop of fresh Hoffman is looking particularly ripe.
He needs to fight Jesse Plemons, who quite obviously by looks must have been an illegitimate love child of PSH. There can be only one!
I know it’s a trend in Hollywood generally for obvious reasons, but Anderson seems to love casting people who have famous relatives. Inherent Vice is absolutely full of them – Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Eric Roberts and Maya Rudolph all have famous blood relatives, and all but Wilson have relatives who were even famous before they were, or in the case of Roberts undeniably more famous.
It’s true, but that also is one fantastic cast.
Oh absolutely, I don’t mean to imply it was nepotism or anything, but there are so many I do wonder if it was deliberate on Anderson’s part.
Maybe, I’m sure there’s a certain level of entitlement and elitism that each of these actors carry with them even if it’s unconscious, and that’s an element he often explores in his characters.
If there was nepotism in the casting of anyone for “Inherent Vice,” oddly enough it would be Joanna Newsom.
What about Marky Mark? Wasn’t his brother in a boy band?
HAIM videos don’t count…
Do Thom Yorke collaborations? Because ANIMA was ace.
Anima is only “ace” if you’re already inclined to be firmly up Thom Yorke’s ass.
I think it’s pretty clear that I am!
Fair enough!
Does this take place in the 80s, or are we going to see a Haim fuzz out like Calvin Kline playing Earth Angel?
I: Phantom Thread
II: Attack of the ClothesIII: Revenge of the Stitch
I logged in specifically so I could star this.
VII: Snitches Get Stiches.
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I keep wanting him to direct SNL film shorts. So far, no dice.
I want him to take up the family tradition and become a horror host like his dad (who was “Ghoulardi”, a male Elvira/Vampira type, in the 1960s)
I had read that the movie was going to be called Soggy Bottom, but that may just be a working title.
“Set in 1970s San Fernando Valley, the film follows a high school student, who is also a successful child actor.” “Quiz Kid” Donnie Smith vibes!Rewatched Magnolia this weekend. Aside from the relentless camera swoops (paging Martin Scorsese!) and bizarre lack of BIPOC people (I mean, it’s LA, my guy!) it manages to transcend late 90s indie mopiness.
Loved his work until Inherent Vice, which didn’t do much for me. Didn’t bother with The Phantom Thread because it frankly sounding hella boring. This kinda sounds like Inherent Vice 2, though? Hopefully not.
Debut? Did we forget the greatest Netflix release of the past few years? Shaking those two halves of butt?