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Daniel Day-Lewis is ready for Blood

By Joshua Tyler Jan 18, 2006, 17:11 GMT

We’ve been hearing on and off for awhile now about the next possible project for director Paul Thomas Anderson, it’s an oil movie loosely based on the 1927 Upton Sinclair novel “Oil!”. After a lot of talk, it looks like the project has finally gotten moving. Variety reports that Daniel Day-Lewis has been confirmed to star in the film and that shooting will begin this May in Texas.

Titled ‘There Will Be Blood’, the movie is both written and directed by Anderson. The Sinclair novel on which he based it, was meant as an expose of the oil industry in his time, as it explores the seamy side of drilling in Southern California. It’ll be interesting how he finds modern relevance in Sinclair’s period specific commentary. With oil still at the forefront of the world’s consciousness, it should be easy.

Day-Lewis will play a prospector who buys the oil rights to his family’s ranch and hits it big with a major oil strike. The movie then follows his rise and fall as he realizes the American dream and then loses it.

Paul Thomas Anderson has won praise as one of Hollywood’s most critically acclaimed directors. He hasn’t made a lot of movies, but what he does contribute is significant. He’s the director of films like Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, and Boogie Nights.

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There Will Be Blood

Adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" The novel is set during the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil ...more

US Release: 2007-12-26
UK Release: 2008-02-08

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