Though director Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama The Master was certainly one of the most polarizing films of 2012, it looks as if he’s tackling some more straightforward subject matter for his next feature. Anderson has been eyeing an adaptation of the Thomas Pychon novel Inherent Vice for a few years now, and he worked on nabbing financing for the pic early last year, at the same time that he got The Master financed. Last we heard, Anderson was working on the screenplay with Robert Downey Jr. keen on tackling the starring role, and now post-Master Anderson has talked a bit more about the project, revealing that he hopes to start shooting next year.
Hit the jump to see what Anderson had to say.
For those unfamiliar with the source material, Inherent Vice takes place in 1969 Los Angeles and centers on a private detective who is helping a former lover with an intriguing case that involves infidelity, mental institutions, and policemen called “Bigfoot.”
Speaking with the New York Times (via Cigarettes and Red Vines), Anderson talked a bit about his approach to the adaptation and revealed that he hopes to film in 2013:
While There Will Be Blood was inspired by Upton Sinclair’s Oil!, this will be a more faithful adaptation — and a new kind of screenwriting challenge — for Mr. Anderson. “It’s more secretarial,” he said. “The credit should be like ‘secretary to the author.’ ” He added that he has “a large stack of pages” and hopes to shoot next year. “But it’s no less fun. In some ways it’s just what the doctor ordered right now for me: being more selfless.”
Given the heavy and tough-to-crack nature of The Master, I’m interested to see if this “secretarial” approach to Inherent Vice will yield a more accessible film from Anderson akin to Boogie Nights. There’s no update regarding Downey Jr.’s involvement, but the actor has made no secret of his desire to work with Anderson in the past, so hopefully his schedule permits his involvement with this project.
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lets hope he redeems himself with this one
Redeem himself to who? To you? I get that it wasn’t to your taste, and that’s totally fine, but don’t act like the guy made a bad film.
Wow. Replying to an idiot on the internet is pointless. But yeah, you’re an idiot, LoGan5.
Probably more along the lines of Punch Drunk Love (which was amazing btw).
Going to shoot this on 65mm as well? I hope so!!!!!!
just give him a superhero movie already. i want to see Daniel Day Lewis as Spider man
that made me burst a LOL, the second part
Im trying to imagine a PTA directed superhero movie… nope, can’t see it.
Well actually, Watchmen couldve been interesting. Yknow, instead of the vacuous, forgettable Matrix fu garbage we ended up with.
VERY much looking forward to this probably my most anticipated project currently in development. I hop Robert Downey Jr. gets cast that would be awesome!
I hope they work together, I am looking forward to Iron Man 3 and Avengers 2 but other than that I think RDJ needs to lay off the big blockbusters a bit, and get involved in some really interesting stuff. PTA is one of the most amazing film-makers and RDJ is a very talented actor.
i want to watch this right now
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