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Joaquin Phoenix to Reteam with Paul Thomas Anderson for INHERENT VICE

Fresh off their polarizing yet undeniably impressive collaboration on The Master, director Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix are looking to team up for another project. THR reports that Phoenix is now in talks to star in Anderson’s adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel Inherent Vice, which 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.” Robert Downey Jr. had long been circling the lead role, but the actor apparently decided to pass on the project.

Anderson recently described his screenplay adaptation for Inherent Vice as more “secretarial” than his adaptation for There Will Be Blood, but I wouldn’t necessarily bank on the filmmaker making a wholly accessible film—especially with Phoenix in the lead role. The actor was a force of nature in The Master, so I’m really looking forward to seeing what the two cook up for this project. Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, which financed The Master, is once again producing.

 

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EVIL DEAD Received an NC-17 from the MPAA on First Submission

We all pretty much saw this coming as soon as the first red-band trailer for the film was unveiled, but director Fede Alvarez recently revealed that his remake of Evil Dead received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA when it was first submitted for consideration. We

 

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Hugh Laurie Lands Villain Role in Brad Bird’s TOMORROWLAND

Director Brad Bird’s secretive project at Disney looks to have found its villain. Previously referred to as 1952, the possibly sci-fi project was co-written by Bird and Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof and recently landed the new title of Tomorrowland. The plot has been kept firmly under wraps, but we know that George Clooney is the film’s star and the story has been described as being in the vein of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now, as the film marches towards a production start-date later this year, Bird has settled on the actor to play his villain: House star Hugh Laurie.

Per Heat Vision, Hugh Laurie has entered negotiations to play the villain in Tomorrowland. Further details regarding the role are unknown at this time. Bird and Lindelof have been adding fuel to the speculation fire surrounding the film since releasing a couple of curious images late last month. The project apparently began when Lindelof stumbled on a box of documents in Walt Disney’s personal development lab labeled “1952,” and the two subsequently shared images of the box’s contents online.

Production on Tomorrowland will get underway later this year, after Clooney wraps his latest directorial effort Monuments Men. Disney will release Tomorrowland on December 19, 2014.


Hugh Laurie in Talks for Villain Role in Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland with George Clooney