P.T. Anderson might just find some more "Oil!"

I found this little bit of film sugar and wanted to share... I've think about this at times and Paul Thomas Anderson's films Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love and Magnolia are perfection. Sorry but P.T. is a wunderkind. He might be a reclusive and prefers solid B-actors in his films but the writing is so modern and yet granduer in way unseen in films made by people near his age. Sorry but it's sadly the truth and P.T.'s next "There Will Be Blood" loosely based on the 1927 Upton Sinclair novel "OIL!", which chronicles the ugly side of oil drilling in 1920's California. Stars Daniel Day Lewis playing a man who buys a family ranch and strikes black gold when he finds crude oil. The book showcased bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production. Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist are the people that populate the pages of the novel. Day-Lewis will play the prospector who buys the oil rights to a family's ranch, and then hits a major pocket of crude. The story is basically a turn into greed and faith, as the prospector realizes the American dream and is destroyed by it.. It also must be said that P.T. is directing from his own adaptation so it should be butters.


See you at the movies.