Watch the trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s THE MASTER. It was one of three films previewed at Cannes by The Weinstein Company.
From Variety:
Footage for “The Master,” which may or may not be based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, started with Joaquin Phoenix being interrogated by a military officer followied by Philip Seymour Hoffman in multiple guises — “I do many things” — as a doctor, speaker and physicist and Amy Adams as his intense spouse.
So. Pretentious PTA or Oscar gold?
A 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as “the Master” whose faith-based organization begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man.
The film will be in theaters October 12, 2012.
