Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master Delayed Indefinitely
Jeremy Renner reveals the project has hit a wall they couldn't overcome.
It's sad to report that Paul Thomas Anderson's latest project has effectively been abandoned.
The director of the greatest film of the last decade, There Will Be Blood, struggled to get financing for his new film The Master, despite coming off the back of three Oscar nominations during 2008.
Anderson's script saw Philip Seymour Hoffman as a charismatic intellectual leader who starts a new religion. Jeremy Renner was to co-star as the master's apprentice, who questions the belief system. Hoffman recently told The Playlist that despite a planned shooting date of August, he didn't have any new information on the production: "I really mean that, I'm not being obtuse. I don't quite know what that is at the moment, but hopefully I will and hopefully I'll be part of something soon."
Now in this month's print edition of Total Film, Renner has dropped this bombshell: "It really kind of stalled because when we were rehearsing - Phil, Paul and myself - we kept coming up against a wall that we couldn't overcome. Or at least Paul couldn't overcome." There's no word on what that wall was, despite rumours that the story upset Scientologists...
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