Rumor of the Week: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Power Play’
SlashFilm points us to a June 7 entry at Cigarettes and Red Vines (”The definitive P.T. Anderson resource”) consisting of an unsourced rumor that Paul Thomas Anderson’s next project will be Power Play , based on Peter Bart’s novella about a power struggle between Las Vegas casino owners and Native American tribes.
Bart got in trouble from his employers at Variety back in 2001 for shopping around a screenplay supposedly written by his wife based on the novella - a Variety no-no. At the time, Robert Evans was rumored to be producing with Jack Nicholson to star.
Nope. I’m not buying it.
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yay! rumors!
But you left out the vicious part, Craig. Permettez-moi.
From wiki (world’s most authoritative encyclopedia of rumors):
…and sentenced to unspecified hours of community service in his weekly coffee klatch “Sunday Morning Shoot the Shit” with that other insufferable Peter — Guber. Which I believe is unconstitutional since it punishes all of us.
The novella is published in a collection called “Dangerous Company” available on Amazon.com Marketplace for $0.01.
Publishers Weekly says: “…And so it goes, as Tinseltown types maneuver, backstab, manipulate and cajole, some with compassion, many not, in stories that are brisk, smartly told, penetrating and, at times, clever enough to seduce the reader into schadenfreude, as in “Power Play,” in which an Ovitz-like entrepreneur gets his comeuppance. Bart knows Hollywood like nobody’s business, and he exposes it here in all its glorious bizarreness.”
Wonder what would happen if the ultimate outsider director consorts with the ultimate schmoozy insider? I’m not buying it either.
Leave it to me to cut out the juicy bits, I did link to the Slate story though.
Anything is possible I suppose, but in the absence of anyone in the know on record, I’m calling bullshit.
Just realized the Publisher’s Weekly sum-up-ance refers to an entrepreneur who get his comeuppance. A major theme The Magnificent Ambersons and key quote is about George Amberson “getting his comeuppance.”
Maybe PTA is retracing Welles career arc — a follow-up to his own Citizen Kane with his own Ambersons.
Can’t wait for the PTA Lady From Shanghai. Just skip ahead to that, please.
I’d be happy with “PTA directs: CATS!”
I don’t care what it is, just bring it.
This sounds like great material for Anderson, but he’s like Tarantino-I don’t believe its on the way until a theatre is announcing it to be playing that week.
Good point, Ryan. I’m looking forward to the PTA-version of Touch of Evil, with a bloated, aging PTA magnificently self-cast as the corrupt chief of police and Brad Pitt cast as the Mexican DA. In a clever twist of casting, Jennifer Aniston will play the DA’s anglo wife, subjected to heroin addiction by the evil crime lord out to destroy Pitt.