Well, this looks promising. After a couple of dormant months in regards to news of Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Scientology film The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, getting off the ground, it seems it may be doing just that.
From PTA fansite Cigarettes and Red Vines (via /Film):
“we can exclusively tell you, despite everything else circulating the net that it sounds like The Master is set to shoot sometime next month. More details about things hopefully soon.”
We know it’s not Universal putting up the cash for the $35 million budget. So who is?
Whoever it is, let’s hope they don’t back out. The Master currently has Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon as husband and wife, respectively and Jeremy Renner (?) as Hoffman’s right-hand man.
In other filming news, it would appear Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have lined up their next project, an adaptation of the 1960s melodrama Dark Shadows. Depp will star as a vampire. The film is set to start shooting in January. [The Playlist]
The show Dark Shadows followed the strange adventures of the Collins family, led by Barnabas Collins (who Depp would play), a vampire himself. Sounds right up the collaborative team’s alley, and perhaps too much so.
Which film are you more excited for? Dark Shadows or The Master?