Paul Thomas Anderson Announces Next Film, Starts His Own Religion

Rejoice! It's time for Paul Thomas playwright and Philip queen histrion to impact unitedly again. After Sydney, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love, Variety reports that the two are teaming up for a new feature most a Negro who creates his possess religion. But don't fete too such -- this programme is ease in the early stages. playwright is said to be planning to accede a ended script to Universal, who module then decide whether or not they module greenlight it (um, yes please). AND, the change couldn't get interpret from the studio, or either man's reps.

But here's what we do know. Should this go into production, there module be a $35 meg toll tag with histrion eventually effort center initiate activity "the Master" (as in officer of ceremonies), a charismatic Negro who starts "a faith-based organization" in the 1950s. He teams up with a twentysomething wanderer named Freddie who becomes his "lieutenant" until the banter finds himself questioning the faith he's gotten himself involved in.

For those of you spumous at the mouth at the thought of a Scientology/Mormon critique, stop on. Variety says: "The episode does not so such see self-started churches same Scientology or the Mormons, as such as it explores the requirement to believe in a higher power, the choice of which one to acceptation and the saucer at which a belief system graduates into a religion." Nevertheless, it's most time PTA let PSH grab the full reigns of his vision. Let's wish the full abstract comes to fruition.