The cast for Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled religious drama continues to fill out, as Rami Malek (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn) has just signed on for the film. He joins Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Jesse Plemons, David Warshofsky, and Lena Endre in the flick. Showblitz reports that Malek will play the son-in-law of the main character, played by Hoffman, with Adams playing Hoffman’s wife.
The story is set in the 1950s and centers on a WWII veteran who starts a new religion after being haunted by the horrors of battle. Phoenix plays an alcoholic drifter who becomes Hoffman’s right hand man. Malek was last seen in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, and plays the part of Benjamin in the final two Twilight films. The cast so far is impressive, and the thought of having a new Paul Thomas Anderson film in theaters by next year is almost too good to be true.
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Now with Rami Malek of the Twilight Sage etc , The cast of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, what ever its titled, is shaping up nicely. And no wonder PTA is one of the most intelligent, perceptive, dedicated directors in Hollywood
and arguably THE best filmmaker working today.
Scorsese said it best when he was talking about Kubrick.
“By that time, after Lolita and Dr. Strangelove… we all knew that, yes there were these great directors around, but Kubrick was the one. We have to wait for a Kubrick film. and in “2001″ we got it!” – Scorsese
for me, yes there are these great directors around today that can be considered masters of cinema(Scorsese still in bunch, Tarantino, Coens, Fincher, Nolan) but PTA is the one. because after There Will Be Blood, it justified that we have to wait for a PT Anderson picture.