There Will Be Blood is so titanic a meeting of auteur and star that the mere idea of a second collaboration could almost immediately diminish a non-existent film. Yes, it’s exciting, but how to deal with the pressure of expectation? The answer is simple: if you’re a real artist, you just go ahead and do it, anyway.
You didn’t necessarily need further proof of their credentials as artists, yet it’s nevertheless nice to hear Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel-Day Lewis are planning a second collaboration — and even better that it sounds, at least on paper, like a different beast. Variety‘s telling us about a new, Megan Ellison-backed, still-being-scripted project that the actor “has been loosely attached to […] for some time,” supposedly set in New York circa the ’50s and centered on the fashion industry.
The only other bit of information, currently, albeit unconfirmed: Anderson’s “meeting young actresses of Eastern European descent to cast supporting roles.” And that’s all — but by Jove! What a fine development this is. Needless to say, we’ll have more as it comes in.
For more on PTA, check out his “Daydreaming” music video for Radiohead and a comprehensive 2.5-hour documentary on his career.